Note 4 — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

When every regiment shall have its salle d’armes, the fencer will modify his own fencing thrusts to suit the clumsier weapon. I do not, however, see any reason why the three Points of the Infantry Sword Exercise should not be delivered in the posizione media of the Italian school, with the thumb upwards and extended along the back of the sword-handle: nor why, as in the French Manuel, they should not be reduced to a single Coup de Pointe (p. 239), which is thus described. “Baisser la pointe du sabre à hauteur de la poitrine et déployer le bras en tournant la main, le pouce en dessous, le tranchant du sabre en dessus.”