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    Edmond Desbonnet (1867–1953) was a French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in Belle Époque...
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    Press. Desbonnet, Edmond 'Apollon, The Emperor of Athletes’ Iron Game History (August 1997) pg 25 Desbonnet, p25-26 Desbonnet, p27 Desbonnet, Edmond 'Les...
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    Alan Calvert, a pioneer of American weight training, and photographer Edmond Desbonnet during the turn of the century. Prior to his arrival in the United...
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    Wrestling. Vol. 1. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. p. 52. Edmond Desbonnet, Les Rois de la Lutte, Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1910 Wikimedia Commons...
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  • weight lifting, enjoyed considerable international popularity, while Edmond Desbonnet and George Hebert popularized their own systems within France and French-speaking...
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    Montmartre Cemetery. According to French physical culturist and academic Edmond Desbonnet, Triat measured 1.79 m (5.9 ft) tall in 1854, and weighed 95 kg (209 lb)...
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    earned her a medal from the "Father of French Bodybuilding", Professor Edmond Desbonnet and a picture on the cover of La Santé par les Sports. She was honored...
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  • Motilal Nehru was in attendance during the wrestling bout in Paris. Edmond Desbonnet’s account of the bout was given in his 1910 book, Les Rois de la Lutte...
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    journalist, first at physical-culturist magazine La Culture Physique, where Edmond Desbonnet served as his intellectual patron. His writings largely centred around...
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    Barton-Wright Zishe Breitbart Niels Bukh Victor Dane François Delsarte Edmond Desbonnet Launceston Elliot Tony Emmott Juan Ferrero Eileen Fowler Bob Fitzsimmons...
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