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Les Jeux internationaux silencieux de Paris en 1924 : les autres Jeux Olympiques / Didier Séguillon
Edited by L'Harmattan - 2024
As the 1924 Paris Olympic Games drew to a close, other Games were being prepared. In August 1924, a few days after the close of the eighth Olympiad, from 10 to 17 August, post-war Paris hosted the first silent International Deaf Games. Focusing on the 1920s, this book traces how the international deaf sports movement was born and developed, and why France's deaf-mute sports movement and its activists organised the first Deaf-Mute Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. This book looks back at the first steps in the internationalisation of the deaf sports movement, notably through the special relationship between two countries, Belgium and France, and the complicity between two men, the Belgian Antoine Dresse and the French Rubens Alcais. It tells the story of the first steps of the Internationale sportive des sourds-muets, founded on 16 August 1924, and shows in pictures the crazy week of the first International Silent Games in Paris in 1924, Olympic Games organised by the deaf, for the deaf.
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