Wrestling / Strength / Pons / Bernard / Apollon / Lille - Lot 143

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Wrestling / Strength / Pons / Bernard / Apollon / Lille - Lot 143
Wrestling / Strength / Pons / Bernard / Apollon / Lille "Tuesday, December 20, 1892 - Great Revenge!!!" Show poster for the Théâtre-Concert des Variétés de Lille, illustration after Eugène LEROUX, Imp. Duran, canvas Announcing a fight between Mr. BERNARD, champion from Bordeaux, and Mr. PONS, the universal champion. Also in the program: "Unprecedented success for M. APOLLON, the king of human strength from the Folies-Bergère in Paris". On Wednesday, the Nordic athletic quadrette with Moury from Lille, and Demoulais from Roubaix...". 59 x 34 cm. This is a historic piece, because it's one of the first representations of the "Man with the Golden Belt", and because, for the first and perhaps only time, we have on the same program two of the stars of the prehistory of world sport, Paul Pons (1864-1915), and Louis Uni (1862-1928), aka Apollon.
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