About Édouard Carpentier
Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz (July 17, 1926 – October 30, 2010), better known by his ring name Édouard Carpentier, was a French and Canadian professional wrestler, gymnast, and member of the French Resistance during World War II. Carpentier began his wrestling career in Europe as Eddy Wiechoski, before being brought to Canada by promoters Eddie Quinn in 1956, where he quickly became a popular babyface. Over the course of his career, Carpentier held multiple world heavyweight championships, including the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the WWA World Heavyweight Championship. Nicknamed "The Flying Frenchman", Carpentier championed a high-flying wrestling style, and was known for his athletic manoeuvres including "back flips, cartwheels and somersaults". After retiring from wrestling, he became a colour commentator for Lutte Internationale and later the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). == Early life == Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz (Russian: Эдуард Виецз) was born in 1926 in Roanne, Loire, to a Russian innkeeper father and a Polish mother. He developed an interest in gymnastics and Greco-Roman wrestling from a young age, and became an all-around athlete. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was captured and imprisoned by German occupation forces. He was sent to a concentration camp outside Paris, but escaped captivity, and promptly joined the French Resistance. After the war, he was awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Croix du combattant medals for his service. After the war, Weiczorkiewicz obtained a degree in physical education.
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