Michel Casseux, also known as "Pisseux" (1794 - 1869) was a master of Savate

Savate

Savate , also known as boxe française, French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed unlike some systems such as Muay...

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He is widely considered one of the pioneers of this sport.

He is even repeatedly named as its inventor and subsequently its first teacher.

Based on streetfighting techniques he developed around 1820 "L'art de la savate".

He banned certain street-fighting manners
and developed a regulated system for self-defense and competition.

Due to his efforts the new sport got even eligible for members of the French upper class who consequently attended his Savate gym.

He elaborated the first training system for Savate
and his gym (or "salle") was the first official Savate dojo

Dojo

A is a Japanese term which literally means "place of the way". Initially, dōjōs were adjunct to temples. The term can refer to a formal training place for any of the Japanese do arts but typically it is considered the formal gathering place for students of any Japanese martial arts style to...

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It was his student and successor Charles Lecour

Charles Lecour

Charles Lecour , who had started his studies of Savate at an early age, was a student of Michel Casseux who merged Savate and English Boxing to a fighting style he eventually called French Boxing....

 who eventually added boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 techniques to Savate and made it what is nowadays established as French Boxing.