LETAINTURIER-FRADIN, Gabriel. Les Joueurs d'Epées à travers les siècles. [v.1908].

Third edition.
Interesting book which describes the history of the practice of fencing since antiquity.

Our copy was won by Jean Lallemant as first prize during an amateur fencing tournament in Reims on August 16, 1908 against "18 competitors without having received a single touch".
Handwritten compliments of the author then under prefect of St Omer.
Mounted on a tab we also find a business card from Gabiel Letainturier-Fradin with his congratulations to Jean Lallemant and a sheet of what must be the carbon of the press release relating the progress of the tournament in Reims.