André and Gaston Durville opened a naturist health centre, edited the La vie sage (1924) and bought a 70-hectare (170-acre) site on the Île du Levant on which they established the Héliopolis. His victory in court established that nudism was legal on private property that was fenced and screened. Others quickly followed as did local opposition. In 1926, he started the magazine Vivre intégralement (later called Vivre) and the first French naturist club, Sparta Club at Garambouville, near Evreux. His family had suffered from tuberculosis, and he saw naturism as a cure and a continuation of the traditions of the ancient Greeks. By then he was a journalist who wrote a defense of the dancer, Malkowski, in the journal Vouloir. Marcel Kienné de Mongeot, who came from a noble family and who was an aviator in the Great War, is credited with starting naturism in France in 1920. A report on German naturism was published in la Revue des deux mondes. In 1907, supported by his superiors, Abbé Legrée encouraged the students at his catholic college to bathe nude on the rocky beaches near Marseille. Gay created a naturist community at Bois-Fourgon.
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