Achille Broutin


Achille Broutin was a French fencing master and a collector of weapons, emigrated to Spain.

Biography

Achille Broutin is born in Metz in 1860. He is son of Emmanuel Broutin, fencing master and Marie-Louise Pasquier, dressmaker. C. Leon Broutin, fencing master too is one of his brothers.
He left France in 1863 because of a duel between his father Emmanuel and a person close to the Emperor Napoleon III's court.
Pupil of his father Emmanuel, he was attaché in his youth to the Queen Isabella II of Spain's secretaryship. He put an end prematurely to his fencing master's career because of his marriage with Maria de Torres y Kruz. His peers of fencing said of him that he was very elegant and "toucheur".
After the Second Empire falling, in 1870, he came back to Paris every winter with his family and so could participate in fencing tournaments.
Eminent Horseman, cultured historian, he proceeded his father's collection of weapons with his pupils' presents and purchases to the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. His widow left in 1923, 13 000 pieces to the San Telmo Museum of Donostia - San Sebastian.
He died without descent in San Sebastián, in 1918.