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Fencing Demonstration
February 16, 2010
10AM
Bone Hall
Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, Duke University East Campus
Tristan Jones & Jonathan Parker, epeeists
Reginald Patterson, speaker
Today fencers Tristan Jones and Jonathan Parker will give a fencing demonstration on the epee, the modern version of the traditional dueling weapon, the rapier.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges fought famous duels and was an extraordinary swordsman. Like Duke’s head fencing coach, Maitre Alex Beguinet, the Chevalier studied fencing in Paris. This demonstration will show you how this ancient tradition mastered by the Chevalier in the 18th century is still going strong today at Duke University.
After the demonstration you will have chance to ask questions of the fencers and of Mr. Patterson, our scholar on the biography of the Chevalier, and there will be a Mardi Gras themed reception with King Cake and coffee in our new exhibition celebrating the life of this most famous master of the bow and foil, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.