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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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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Jean-Louis Michel
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Born:
1785
Died:
1865
(aged 80)
Bio:
Jean-Louis Michel was a fencing master, sometimes hailed as the foremost exponent of the art of fencing in the nineteenth century.
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