The Chappon lineage taught the High Tierce system, which gradually came to dominate Hungarian fencing until the end of the nineteenth century. This fencing lineage is immensely important in Austro-Hungarian fencing history: Lajos Chappon himself was fencing-master to not one but two Austrian Archdukes, in addition to numerous other figures of historical significance such as the poet and revolutionary S ndor Petőfi. Additionally, translations...