#thibault

[dogesterone]

Historical fencing treatise diagrams that look like they're from some kind of wizard manual out of context

The Flower of Battle, Fiore dei Liberi

Trattato di Scientia d'Arme, con vn Dialogo di Filosofia, Camillo Agrippa

Academie de l'Espée, Gérard Thibault d'Anvers

Academie de l'Espée, Gérard Thibault d'Anvers

[glitterbread]

What the fuck

[swordblog]

Though Gerard Thibault's Academie de l'Espee deals primarily with facing an opponent wielding a rapier in a "right-angle" or "straight line" posture preferred by La Verdadera Destreza's fencing theory, he also briefly goes into methods of fighting other weapons with his rapier system. Such weapons covered are sword and dagger, sword and shield, two-handed sword, and... musket.

His method of dealing with the musket is quite interesting: just dodge the musketballs. Okay, I'll admit that's a little hyperbolic. You need not evade the actual projectile, only the aim of the marksman. In this time period, firearms were not as sophisticated and instantaneous as they are now. It took a brief moment for the gunpowder to ignite and fire the projectile, and the accuracy of these firearms is less reliable than their modern descendants.

According to the forty-fourth and final chapter of Academie de l'Espee, the swordsman is advised to immediately draw his sword and begin moving upon perceiving the rifleman, ideally while the latter is loading the musket. The swordsman will then run towards the rifleman in a zig-zag pattern, changing up the number of steps between each change of direction in order to make himself more unpredictable. In theory, the rifleman will have a difficult time aiming at the swordsman while also accounting for the time it takes for the powder to ignite and any deviations in his weapon's precision. Upon reaching the rifleman, the swordsman's goal is simple: get past the muzzle of the firearm and thrust the sword into the rifleman.

This play is highly intriguing for obvious reasons. Fencing plays that account for firearms are extremely uncommon; the only other example I know of is presented by Michael Hundt, a German rapier manual author. As the age of the sword drew to a close and the age of the gun dawned, the old masters had to adapt to the changing times.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Mademoiselle Chambon" de Stéphane Brizé (2009) - d'après le roman éponyme d'Éric Holder (1996) - avec Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika et Jean-Marc Thibault, juin 2023.

[creator-from-hel]

Transcript :

First case : Context : Emerens snuck up on Thibault while he was on the phone with Naomi

Naomi : Bad screamer, leave doctor Thibault alone !

Emerens : .... Doctor Thibault, hmmmm~~~~~~~~

Thibault : ................ Shut up, Emerens.

Arrow pointing Thibault : Not a doctor yet

Arrow pointing Emerens : The face of someone who just found a new thing to moan in bed

When you found a new friend, adorable, mathematician like you and that admired you a lot from afar because of your groundbreaking theories in the math field, but your boyfriend is an absolute horny bitch who just found new material to annoy you.

Thibault, despite his genius and said groundbreaking theories, didn't do any thesis, not in the official sense. So he's not a doctor. Yet, since he has three memoirs and a thesis in preparation when he meets Naomi, the gf's character, but not.

So uh. When he called her in-RP to warn her Hope's Peak has a job for her, and Emerens in his extra annoyance went behind him to startle him, she called him a doctor on the phone...

Giving Emerens THE leverage he needed for future jokes.

And Thibault knows it.

He knows it too well.

that may have given me an idea for a smutty one-shot but shhhhhht Thibault doesn't know it yet

[67001]

Stop bullying him!!! Be nice to him!!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Banks of the Vauvise river in Saint-Thibault-sur-Loire, Sologne region of central France

French vintage postcard

[superchadia]

T es vraiment pas top au final... c est décevant

[thecollectibles]

Art by Justine Thibault

[hannahleah]

Model Caroline Reuter by Thibault-Theodore Babin for Vogue Czechoslovakia March 2020

[dogesterone]

Using my new scabbard to practice Thibault's method of drawing the sword.

[glitterbread]

[in-hopes-of-saying-nothing]

[Location: Ghent, Belgium]

[alkern]

[morthern]

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