Savate was an individual folk combat sport, practised largely in France until the early nineteenth century. It allowed striking the opponent with fists or feet, and tripping and in some variations the use of a stick. A refined variation was known as chausson. From around 1826 refinements to the sport led to the development of French boxing. Research Savate
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