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Bertrand Marie de Lesseps

French fencer (1875-1918)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4895881 ↗
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Bertrand Marie de Lesseps (3 February 1875 – 28 August 1918) was a French fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during World War I. He was the brother of Ismaël de Lesseps, and son of Ferdinand de Lesseps.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 1918, 1908—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1875-02-03. For this dossier, Bertrand, Marie and Lesseps is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bertrand Marie de Lesseps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.