Edmond Desbonnet
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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 France through the publication of fitness journals and by opening a chain of exercise clubs.
Journals
- La Culture Physique
- La Santé par les Sports
Books
- La Force Physique: traité d’athlétisme Paris: Berger Levrault & Cie (1901)
- Les Rois de la Lutte (1910)
- Les Rois de la Force, (1911, The Kings of Strength)
External links
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- [http://users.telenet.be/thomasweynants/culturephysique.html Early French Culture Physique photography by Professor Edmond Desbonnet & others] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109184814/http://users.telenet.be/thomasweynants/culturephysique.html |date=2018-01-09 }}
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Category:20th-century French photographers
Category:People associated with physical culture
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