Louis Leboucher

Also known as

Louis Armand Victorin Leboucher · Amand Leboucher

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French canne, savate and English boxing teacher in Paris, among the first to teach formal methods of canne and staff fencing. He wrote a 25-lesson method in 1844 and taught a quick self-defence "method of the traveller" from his salle in the passage Verdeau.

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  Charles Lecour

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  His own account, as Charlemont relays it.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

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  His own account, as Charlemont relays it.

  “Sur ces entrefaites, arrivèrent à Paris deux professeurs de province, Loze de Toulouse et Leboucher de Rouen. C’est avec ce dernier que Charles Lecour prit des leçons de canne et de bâton, qu’il enseigna ensuite de pair avec la savate.”

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

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