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  3. From: hahn@plugh.network.com (Peter Hahn)
  4. Subject: Re: Just Curious...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194307.20102@ns.network.com>
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  9. References: <1h5khtINNdra@pith.uoregon.edu> <BznCuD.I6I@eis.calstate.edu>
  10. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:43:07 GMT
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  13. In article <BznCuD.I6I@eis.calstate.edu> jlockha@eis.calstate.edu (Jame A Lockhart) writes:
  14. >
  15. >Anyone know the date of the (reported) origins of Savate.  Not sure if it
  16. >makes that 1700's cut.
  17.  
  18. Apparently the practice of foot-fighting arose among the rougher elements
  19. of French society around 1800, for reasons that are unclear; around 1820,
  20. someone whose name I disremember systematized this practice.  Later, other
  21. elements were added, particularly from boxing.
  22.  
  23. So Savate isn't particularly old, though it's amusing to contemplate that
  24. it provably predates any number of arts that sometimes make claims of
  25. great antiquity.  Not mentioning any names...
  26.  
  27. -- 
  28. Peter Hahn           |hahn@network.com|"...Ch'en worked in a drugstore on the
  29. 7600 Boone Ave. N    |+1 612 424-4888 |second story...and at noon each day he
  30. Brooklyn Park, MN USA|                |would leave for lunch in an eccentric
  31. 55428                |                |way: he would stroll out the window..."
  32.