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Élie Monnier

sport shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ19577309 ↗
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Élie Monnier (24 June 1908 – 12 May 1941) was a French sports shooter. He competed in the 25 m pistol event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. An engineer in the French Navy during World War II, Monnier drowned while exploring the wreckage of the battleship Bretagne in 1941.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Élie Monnier” is sport shooter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Élie, Monnier and sport, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1941, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-06-24. For this dossier, Élie, Monnier and sport is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19577309. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1941 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Élie Monnier” 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.