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A foil should be held as one holds a little bird; not so tightly as to crush it, but just enough to prevent it escaping from the hand.
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Vigeant, Ars?ne. Un Maître d'Armes sous la Restauration. Paris, 1883.

 

Jean-Louis Michel

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