Edmond Desbonnet
French academic and photographer
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Born | 1867 |
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)
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- Early French Culture Physique photography by Professor Edmond Desbonnet & others Archived 2018-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
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Physical culture
- Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
- Johann Baptist Krebs
- Pehr Henrik Ling
- Franz Nachtegall
- Francisco Amorós y Ondeano
- Adolf Spiess
- Thomas Topham
- Battle of the Systems
- Fitness culture
- Gymnastics
- Muscular religion
- Yoga as exercise
- Natural hygiene
- Pilates
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