Founded in 1955, the Club has been home to a number of elite fencers and has won multiple national championships.
Salle Jean Louis can directly trace itself back to one of the great fencing masters Jean-Louis Michel himself, through his Prevost, one Emmanuel Broutin who ran the club Salle D'Armes Jean Louis in Paris around the turn of the 19th century.
The line then passed to his son C. Leon Broutin, to two English fencers (John and Victor Millard), to Bert Raper.
The club moved to the North Shore of Auckland in the 70s and was run by Les Penny for numerous years until his passing.
Salle Jean Louis (SJL) is fully affiliated to the Regional Province (Fencing North), the National body (FENZ),[1] which is in turn affiliated to the International body Fédération Internationale d'Escrime .