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Jean Maurice Perronet was a French Fencer . He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens .

Perronet was a fencing master and the only professional allowed to compete in the Olympic Games at the time. Two such masters, Perronet and Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece , competed in a special Foil fencing event at the first modern Olympics. The two faced each other in an event that consisted of a single bout to three touches. Perronet lost the bout, 3-2.