Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848-1914 by Alan R. H. Baker

Author:Alan R. H. Baker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

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The distribution throughout France of clubs for gymnastics, shooting and military training was very uneven. By 1882, of the 21 departments located north of a line from Normandy (Seine-Inférieure) to the Jura, only two did not have clubs for gymnastics, the other 19 had 205 of the 251 such clubs registered in France at that time. To the south of that line, the 65 departments had altogether 46 clubs (and 36 of them had none at all). In general terms, the first military preparation societies were developed in the north and east of France: most of them were located near the international border and/or in urban and industrial centres. But by 1914 virtually the entire country was covered by shooting and gymnastic clubs, although the dominance of the northern and eastern regions persisted (Figs. 3.1 and 3.2). 78

Fig. 3.1Shooting clubs 1916.

Source Data extracted from Saint-Cyr (1916) 3

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