There are three capital cities of physical exercise in the modern world:Berlin,Stockholm and London-from where three Systems have subsequently spread to other regions, each based on ideas well known to the ancient world, incompletely or unconsciously accepted by middle ages and renaissance and which can be summarized in three words:war,hygiene and sport.I should very quickly like to describe the characteristic features of each, indicate their progress through the present age and finally describe France’s part in this great movement that has so aptly been called the There are three capital cities of physical exercise in the modern world: Berlin, Stockholm and London-from where three Systems have succeeded spread to other regions, each based on ideas well known to the ancient world, incompletely or unconsciously accepted by middle ages and renaissance and which can be summarized in three words: war, hygiene and sport. I should very soon like to describe that the characteristic features of each, indicate their progress through the present age and finally describe France’s part in this great movement that has so aptly been called the