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Jean Despeaux
Jean Despeaux (22 October 1915 – 25 May 1989) was a French boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he won the gold medal in the middleweight class after winning the final against Henry Tiller.
He also acted in a handful of films, including Maurice Tourneur's "La Main du diable" (1943), in which he played a boxer.
1936 Olympic results.
Below is the Olympic record of Jean Despeaux of France, who competed as a middleweight boxer
at Frankfurt. There were four divisions, the 1st under Olivier Macoux Rivaud de la Raffinière, 2nd under Despeaux, 3rd under Joseph Lagrange and Reserve under Marc Antoine de Beaumont. Despeaux commanded six provisional infantry battalions divided into two brigades, a total of 2,520 soldiers. He was appointed to division command on 8 May 1809. He was assigned to Jean-Andoche Junot's corps but when that general departed, Despeaux assumed command for a time. He spent several days in the fortress during the Siege of Flushing in the Walcheren