En Garde

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For the album by the band Criteria, see En Garde (album).

For the role-playing game see En Garde!

En garde is a French phrase meaning 'on guard'. Used to warn a fencer to assume the position preparatory to a duel.

In English-speaking popular culture, it is particularly associated with the sport of fencing, and with a largely imagined pre-Revolutionary France along the lines of the Three Musketeers.^{[citation needed]}