Foil Fencing at Joinville

Title: Foil Fencing at Joinville
Subject: Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime; Military Fencing—France; Foil Fencing
Description: Postcard with photograph from the Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime at Joinville-le-Pont. Taken at Camp de St-Maur and labeled with "Escrime au Fleuret." A crowd watches three pairs of fencers. The two fencers in for foreground are fencing foil, while the pair behind them hold sabres.

A handwritten inscription is dated 1911 from Joinville.
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: 1911 (postmark)
Temporal Coverage: 1910s
Contributor: E. Le Deley (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: Benjamin Bowles Collection
Extent: 14 x 9 cm
Language: French
Type: Postcard
Identifier: 2020.01.018
Spatial Coverage: France; Paris (Greater); Joinville-le-Pont
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Benjamin Bowles; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles