Description
French savate and canne master who joined savate kicks with English boxing punches to form French boxing. He learned savate from Michel Casseux, canne and bâton from Leboucher, and took boxing lessons from the English professional Adams in Paris. With his brother Hubert he opened a salle in the passage des Panoramas in 1832 and taught many aristocratic and literary students. He left the salle to Hubert in 1848 and stopped teaching in 1884.
Teachers (3)
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Michel Casseuxsports_martial_artsSavate ProbableProbableHis 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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3 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkHis own account, as Charlemont relays it. -
Adamssports_martial_artsBoxing ProbableProbableHis own account, as Charlemont relays it.The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.Private lesson (1838)
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkHis own account, as Charlemont relays it.“C’est alors qu’il se fit présenter à Adams qui était resté à Paris, et put ainsi prendre avec lui un certain nombre de leçons. Grâce à ces leçons de boxe anglaise réunies à la savate, Charles Lecour forma ce que l’on appela à juste titre la boxe française. Nous tenons de Charles Lecour lui-même les lignes qui précèdent”
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Louis Lebouchersports_martial_artsCanne de combat ProbableProbableHis 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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1 source expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkHis own account, as Charlemont relays it.
Students (3)
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Rambaudsports_martial_artsLecour method ProbableProbableWikipedia only.The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkWikipedia only. -
Louis Gaillardsports_martial_artsLecour method PossiblePossibleImplied: Lecour coached him at the 1884 assault, and onlookers called him one of the best representatives of the Lecour method.Some evidence points to the claim, but it is thin, indirect, or in unresolved conflict with other evidence.
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2 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkImplied: Lecour coached him at the 1884 assault, and onlookers called him one of the best representatives of the Lecour method.alt_routeIndirect -
Joseph Charlemontsports_martial_artsSavate RefutedbalanceRefuted – conflicting evidence recordedWikipedia states it, but the statement is unsourced or its sources do not support it; more direct evidence states that no relation existed.The evidence establishes that the claim is false: it is incompatible with the claim, and nothing credible supports it.
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7 sources expand_moreFrederico MuñozResearcher, Martialisfact_checkWikipedia states it, but the statement is unsourced or its sources do not support it; more direct evidence states that no relation existed.alt_routeIndirect“During the 1880s and 1890s, Joseph Charlemont and Louis Albert synthesized the Lecour brothers’ methods and moves.”
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Sources
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“During the 1880s and 1890s, Joseph Charlemont and Louis Albert synthesized the Lecour brothers’ methods and moves.”
Identifiers
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Charles Lecour. In Martialis: Martial Arts
Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5JG4Y25WZEYTQ2DBFQFW26C - CC
BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M5JG4Y25WZEYTQ2DBFQFW26C, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Charles Lecour}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M5JG4Y25WZEYTQ2DBFQFW26C}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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