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4 unusual facts about C. Leon Broutin


C. Leon Broutin

He was the son of Emmanuel Broutin (Somain 1826-1883 Donostia-San Sebastián), a fencing master, and Marie-Louise Pasquier, a dressmaker.

Achille Broutin (Metz 1860 - 1918 Donostia-San Sebastián), one of his brothers was a collector of weapons and also a fencing master.

He left France with his family at the end of 1863, following a duel between his father Emmanuel and a person close to the Emperor Napoleon III.

A pupil of his father (himself a pupil of the famous Jean-Louis Michel), Broutin succeeded in operning his own fencing school in Madrid and wrote a treaty of fencing El Arte de la Esgrima, with a preface written by the marqués de Altavilla, published in 1893.



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