Michel Casseux · Lineage tree

Also known as

Michel Pisseux · Michel Lepisseux · Michel, called Pisseux

Description

Parisian savate and canne master, known as Michel or Pisseux. He opened the first savate salle about 1825 at La Courtille and later taught in the rue Buffault. His students included Charles Lecour, and an 1843 savate treatise was written by one of his students.

Students (1)

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  Charles Lecour

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  Probable

  His own account, as Charlemont relays it.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  (1824)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  His own account, as Charlemont relays it.

  “Il commença très jeune à prendre des leçons de savate, il eut pour professeur le célèbre Michel Pisseux, fort réputé à cette époque. C’était en 1824, il avait alors 16 ans”

  — Charlemont, Joseph. (1899). La boxe française, historique et biographique : souvenirs, notes, impressions, anecdotes link info

  “il apprend la savate et le maniement des armes affinitaires de cette discipline (canne, bâton) auprès de Michel (dit « Pisseux »”

  — Charles Lecour - Wikipédia (fr). Wikipedia (French) link history info

  “Michel Pisseux a aussi formé Charles Lecour qui ouvre à son tour une salle d’entraînement en 1832.”

  — Michel Pisseux - Wikipédia (fr). Wikipedia (French) link history info

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