Necrologies
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Necrologies
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May 1940
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NECROLOGIES
Death has taken two of America's most famous fencing masters within the past seven weeks.
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Jean Louis Danguy died in Cambridge, Mass., on March 20th. He was 83 years old. Mr. Danguy came to the United States in 1907, after having received 22 fencing awards for his skill throughout Europe. He had spent 18 years as a fencing master in London, where he numbered members of the Royal Family among his pupils. Upon arriving in the United States, he became fencing master for 12 years at the New York Fencers Club. He was fencing master at Harvard University from 1919 until his retirement in 1929. He likewise taught fencing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Boston Athletic Club. He continued to fence after his retirement and was reported as having fenced as recently as a week before his death.
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Francois Darriaulat died at Dickerson, Maryland, April 24th, at 71 years of age. Mr. Darriaulat came to this country from France as a comparatively young man. His skill as a fencing master first came to national attention when, as Fencing Coach at the United States Naval Academy, he was appointed American Olympic Fencing Coach in 1920. He accompanied the American Olympic Fencing Team to Antwerp in 1920 and again coached our Olympic Team when it went to Paris in 1924. Following his return from Paris, he became Fencing Master at Cornell University, where he trained several Intercollegiate Championship Teams up until his retirement in 1930. Since that time, he has lived quietly in Maryland, from which place recent word of his death came with considerable shock to his many fencing friends throughout the East.
Both Mr. Danguy and Mr. Darriaulat were among the first fencing masters in the United States to receive the A.F.L.A. Certificate of Merit.
