Disarm after the parade on outside, Italian guard positions with sword and dagger, Return in tierce after parry with poignard. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from the Escrime fencing section of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.

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