Sabre Exam at Joinville

Title: Sabre Exam at Joinville
Subject: Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime; Military Fencing—France; Sabre Fencing
Description: Postcard with a photograph from the Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime at Joinville. Labeled as “Un Examen de Sabre” taken at Camp de St-Maur. Two instructors are observing two fencers, presumably mid-examination. The fencer on the right is performing a lunge with a cut to the other fencer’s left cheek, while the fencer on the left is performing a subterfuge with a parry of high prime.
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Contributor: A. Breger Frères (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: Benjamin Bowles Collection
Extent: 13.6 x 8.9 cm
Language: French
Type: Postcard
Identifier: 2020.01.017
Spatial Coverage: France; Paris (Greater); Joinville-le-Pont
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Benjamin Bowles; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles