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Joanni Perronet

Joanni Perronet

French fencer

Joanni Maurice Perronnet (19 October 1877 – 1 April 1950) was a French painter and fencer.

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He was son of music composer Joanni Perronnet and Blanche Guérard, as well as grandson of the playwright and lyricist Amélie Perronnet.

He was a fencing master, the only professional allowed to compete in the Olympic Games at the time. Two such masters, Perronet and Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece, competed in a special foil fencing event at the first modern Olympics. The two faced each other in an event that consisted of a single bout to three touches. Perronet lost the bout, 3-1.[1] He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a silver medal and 3 goats.[2]

He had close links to Sarah Bernhardt, she was his godmother.[3] In 1908, he became secretary-general of the Sarah-Bernhardt Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt.

He is known as a painter, most of his paintings are seascapes.[3] He also designed many posters for French railway companies[4] and painted several portraits of Sarah Bernhardt.

References

  1. [1]
    "Joanni Perronet". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Joanni Perronet Biography and Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  3. [3]
    Perronnet, Maurice. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00139248.
  4. [4]
    "Ventes aux enchères Maurice PERRONNET (1877 - 1950)". catalogue.gazette-drouot.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.[permanent dead link]


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