Joanni Maurice Perronnet (19 October 1877 – 1 April 1950) was a French painter and fencer. 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 Leonidas Pyrgos (born 1874 in Mantineia, Arcadia; date of death unkwown) was a Greek fencer. Career Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics o ...

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, competed in a special

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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. He competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics The 1896 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1896, Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, Agónes tis 1is Ol ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, winning a silver medal and 3 goats. He had close links to

Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including '' La Dame Aux Camel ...

, she was his godmother. In 1908, he became secretary-general of the Sarah-Bernhardt Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. He is known as a painter, most of his paintings are

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s. He also designed many posters for French railway companies and painted several portraits of Sarah Bernhardt.

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* Fencers at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen French male sabre fencers Olympic fencers of France Olympic silver medalists for France 1877 births 1950 deaths Fencers from Paris Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics French painters {{France-fencing-Olympic-medalist-stub