This French fencing champion spent many years perfecting his craft before he won an Olympic medal in the foil and epee despite an evident superiority from a very young age.Although he won team gold medals in epee and foil at the Paris Games, he finally won the individual gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics at the age of 42. These were his fifth games, and he won the and won the two events. He is still looked upon as a model of courage and abnegation by French fencers.