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  1. Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!quads!wag5
  3. From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
  4. Subject: Re: Savate
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec26.033049.9726@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <725174873.AA07224@urchin.fidonet.org>
  10. Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:30:49 GMT
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  13. In article <725174873.AA07224@urchin.fidonet.org> Stovall@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Stovall) writes:
  14. >PH>Apparently the practice of foot-fighting arose among the rougher
  15. >PH>elements of French society around 1800, for reasons that are
  16. >PH>unclear; around 1820, someone...systematized this practice...
  17. >It seems I read somewhere that it was a serious offense to strike
  18. >someone with your hand back then, so the baser elements developed
  19. >a form of foot fighting. Then again, the story might be apocryphal.
  20. >
  21. >Happy holidays,
  22. >Tom
  23.  
  24.     I seem to recall reading somewhere that the kicking
  25. was a form of punishment. Instead of thirty lashes, it would be
  26. thirty kicks.  Also there was something about kicking and Napolean's
  27. army, which I can't recall.
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  29.             Happy Hannukah & Happy Christmas,
  30.             John
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