novel swim when Jules Paul
Victor Gautier set off for
Greenwich, the first this
daring exhibitionist would
make with his feet and hands
bound with rope. Gautier was
born in 1856 and by his early
twenties was taking part in
amateur swimming races. He
was a pianoforte maker by
trade, and in 1880 he first
appeared in the press not for
his swimming but because of
his temper. One evening a
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