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Hippolyte Triat

French gymnast

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physical culture

  • Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) gymnasium
    In physical culture: Humanism and national revivals

    …physical culture pioneer and strongman Hippolyte Triat established a huge gymnasium in Paris where aristocrats joined spirited youth in pursuit of fitness. In the 1870s physical education became a principal focus in French schools, where battalions of healthy young men were trained to avenge the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to the…

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