When I was going to university in France, some of us in the (then) communist led French student union (l'UNEF) used to get into fights with members of the trotskyist LCR. I recall several people in our group studying Savate in that period.
By the way, we kicked their ass. It turns out trotskyites cant street-fight worth a damn ;) (They were usually the ones to start the fights though.)
In any case, Savate is alive and (more or less) well, so I dont see a cultural reference to it as proof that these lines are old. They might be old, but the reference to savate does not suffice as proof.
-Thomas
===== <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
-Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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