Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27

A duel has been fought on Count billions
estate, near Paris, between M. Floquet,
the French Prime Minister, and Gen
sral Boulanger, the well-known mem
Der of the Chamber of Deputies Gene
raj Boulanger has for months past been the
most prominent figure in French political
circles on account of his warlike attitude to-
ward Germany
The duel was the direct result of violent
personalities used in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, during which General Boulanger de-
nounced NJ FIoquet as an impudent liar
BOulanger proposed the dissolution of the
Chamber, and the proposition was rejected
The General thereupOn resigned his seat
During his speech Boulanger said the
Chamber of Deputies falling into ruin
and decay, and that the Monarchists were
watching for the death agony of the Repub
lie. He would do his duty by demanding
the passage of a resolution that the Chamber
ask President Carnot for dissolution.
NJ FIOquet reprOacned General Boulanger,
who always absent from the Chamber,
He said it was not for man like BOulanger
to judge OF its leg slative labOrs and criti
else hardwOrking members What had Bou
LANCER done!
The General replied that he had made an
appeal to the country.
NJ FIoquet retorted that the country had
answered him in the Charente election, in
which BOulanger's candidate for the Cham
Der of Deputies was defeated.
BOulanger characterized Floquet's speech
as only the utterance of a badly educated
school usher, and then branded him as an
impudent liar.
Boulanger then left the Chamber, and
vote of censure was passed upon him, when
the body adjourned
onds to General Boulanger's house with
challenge to fight a duel MN. Clemenceau
and Perrin, the seconds, did not find Boulan-
ger at home, but at Paris newspaper
LOTT of nI10f
Ion and M. Laquerre acted for BOulanger,
and the four umpires soon had the arrange
ments made for the meeting the next morn
ing.
General Boulanger was cheered by the
people on emerging from the PTeSSe office at
half-past o'clock in the morning on his way
to the duelng grounds, and he responded to
their plauditS by raising his nat He drove to
Neuilly in brOugham and arrived first at
the place of meeting. He paced a walk
with his seconds while awaiting the coming
of NJ. FlOquet, who arrived at ten minutes
past ten o'clock. While the seconds were ex-
pOring the garden searching for a convenient
spot for the duel M FlOquet, without betraY-
ing any emotion, walked to and fro con.
versing with friends. At the same time Cen
eral BOulanger, with an ObtruSive affecta-
ton of Indifference, kept twirlng his walk
ing stick about and consulting with his
watch as though impatient to begin fighting.
There was a large crowd outside the grounds
At twenty minutes past ten o'clock NJ. Lai-
SAINT, who directed the duel, brought together
the points OF the swords and delivered the
word of command. General BOulanger imme-
diately made vigorous lung at NJ. Floquet,
wounding him slightly on the left thigh. The
combatants were Immediately separated, when
it found that BOulanger's right hand
fOrefinger was scratched.
In the second round Boulanger advanced
with extreme violence to the attack. FlOquet
stood on the defensive. The General made
desperate Iunge forward, slightly wOunding
the Prime Minister'S left breast. Unable to
recover from the impetus of his lunge he
actually ran his neck onto the sword
which NJ. Floluet had kept pointed straight
at him. A terrible cash i'll the throat was the
result, the blood spirited forth in torrents
and BOuIanger fell unconscious into the
arms of his seconds The surgeons in at
tendance Immediately took measures to
stop the flow of blood. and later con-
Veyed him into Count billions house On the
estate. NJ. Floquet's sword penetrated two
and a half inches at a point between the
Jugular vein and carotid artery.
The duel was fiercely fought and lasted
just four minutes. General Boulanger tried
hard to kill NJ Floquet, and threw himself
upon him again and again.
The Prime Minister, it was easy to see, was
totally unused to handling a sword, and it is
a matter of the greatest astOniShment that so
unskilful a fencer should have been able to
parry his adversary's lungeS SO successfully.
Premier Floquet was given a grand ovation
on his return to Paris.