Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's épée

The first round of the event consisted of pool play round-robin tournaments. Each fencer faced each other fencer once. Of the 17 pools, 15 had six fencers each and 2 had seven. The top two placers in each advanced to the quarterfinals.

The quarterfinals were again round-robin affairs. The original schedule was that there would be six pools: two would have five fencers each and four would have six fencers, with the top three in each pool to advance.

After three of the original quarterfinalists (Maurice Jay, André Rabel, and Jean-Joseph Renaud) withdrew after the draw, the quarterfinals were redrawn: there were five pools with six fencers each, while the sixth pool included Holzchuch and four fencers who had lost in other quarterfinals and were given a second chance to advance.

The semifinals, with 18 fencers left, were conducted in three pools of round-robin play. Each pool had six fencers, with the top three advancing to the final.

In the final, each fencer had either 5 or 6 bouts. Fonst and Perrée initially tied for first with 4 wins each, then Fonst won the barrage to break the tie.

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses
	Ramón Fonst	Cuba	4	2
	Louis Perrée	France	4	1
	Léon Sée	France	3	2
4	Georges de la Falaise	France	3	3
5	Eduardo Camet	Argentina	2	3
6	Edmond Wallace	France	2	4
7	Gaston Alibert	France	2	3
8	Léon Thiébaut	France	2	4
9	Henri Plommet	France	0	6