Amoros Ondeano, Francisco (Francois) 19.feb.1770-8.aug.1848 Spain, Valencia - France, Paris 1st arr.
gymnastics instructor, politician, colonel, bandmaster, 1808-1814 active in the Spanish War of Independence, from 1814 refugee in Paris, 10.jul.1816 he became naturalized French, 1817-1848 founder/director of Ecole Normale de Gymnastique de Joinville-le-Pont in Paris (now Institut National des Sports), 1819-1837 also founder/director of the military and civilian normal gymnase de Grenelle in Paris, 1829 he established the first divisional gym in Montpellier and by 1835 had organized military division gyms in Lyon, Strasbourg, Metz, Arras and Rennes

[Fetis 1860 gives erroneously died 1843]

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[] Cantiques religieux et moraux ou la morale en chansons, a l'usage des enfants des deux sexes (Canticos religiosos y morales o la moral en cancion, para uso de ambos sexos). Singing instruction book with music. Paris 1806 [Fetis]
[] Cartas del Sr. Amoros a la Sociedad para instruccion elemental, sobre la coleccion de canticos que ha publicado, y sobre la escuela de canto de su gimnasio. Song collection for use in his gymnastics school. Paris 1809

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