Régis Sénac
In his 1879 travel journal , Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes , Robert Louis Stevenson mentions eating at an inn in Goudet , France where there is a portrait of Sénac , the host's nephew , billed as “Professor of Fencing and Champion of the Two Americas” . 
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