Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
Drawn During the Latest Batch of
French Encounters on the
Field of Honor.
TIE BOULANGIST REVELATIONS
Cause Any Quantity of Bitter Disputes and
Deadly Challenges Almost
Without Number.
THAT RYALIST CORRUPTION FUND.
Secret Meeting Of the Prstsndsr to the Throne and ths
Brave General
iBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATcH.I ]

iBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.I
LONDON, September [Copyrightl-
Decidedly Paris has been the center o.
European interest this week, what with the
"coulisses de Boulangiste" and the various
duels and complications arising therefrom
The duel, as she is fought in France and by
Frenchmen, has always tended to promote
the gaiety Of nations, but the affairs in
whiea Rocheiort and Thiebaud and Mer.
MEX and seven opponents have been in.
volved are more than usually amusing.
For instance, in the encounter between
the exiled journalist at La Clinge, ON the
Belgian frontier, and the affronted THE
baud, we have the humane spectacle of the
surgeons carefully washing the swords of
the combatants in antiseptic liquids before
the fight, SO that neither rust nor previous
gore that those weapons may have drawn
might have any injurious effect upon the
two principals, and of Rochefort explaining
after he had scratched the other warrior that
the article at which he had taken offense was
meant to scarily some other person.
A HUMOROUS INCIDENT.
Another humorous incident of this duel
was the circumstance that on the way TO the
field OF battle Rochefort desired to CRAFTY
his artistic taste by viewing the two pictures
by Van Eyck in the Ghent Cathedral. but
was afraid to do so lest the swarm of report
ers who followed him might think he had
entered to pray before the combat. Still
funnier was the duel between Mermiex. au
thor of the Boulangist expose, and De La
Bruyere, the first of his seven challengers,
which took place in Laguerre's garden at
Maisonlaftte.
The duel was fought with the usual
French caution, and De La Bruyere seemed
TO believe that he was getting on very we'll
unit one of his seconds informed him that
he was wounded, and when the hero prompt
ly ystopped to inquire where he was hurt
Mermiex accidentally jabbed him in the
hand, inhlcting the only real injury suf-
fered in a French duel since Flouuet. a
lawyer who did not understand the sword.
by similar accident slashed Boulanger
himself across the neck in the memorable
encounter that preceded lie Brav Generals
flight to Belgium.
AN EASY DODGE.
AS de Ia Bruyere strenuously insists that
Mermiex cut him on purpose the other six
challengers have decided that he is mot a
gentleman, and hence they cannot conde-
scend to fight him, thus getting really out
OF scrape themselves. The "coulisses de
Boulanglste continue, however, to be of
the greatest interest, and there is little
doubt that before many more DAYS the en-
tire inside history OF the great conspiracy
will be made public
The Duchess d Uzes' contributions to this
history are particularly important, and
Boulanger cannot now long put off the day
when, as he has averred in answer to all the
CHARGES that harp haan
since be left France, he would make an
answer that would satisfy the people of
France and confound his enemies
A part of the interview with the Duchess
that was published in Dizneuviene. Steele
throws much light on the entire situation,
Being asked how she had been induced to
give princely fortune of more than 3,OOo.-
600 francs to the Boulangist cause, she re.
piled indiferently.
DETAILS OF THE CORRUPTION.
"It was not more than 100000. 1t was
exactly 100000. Ny first payment was
one of $4,000 francs for the first expense of
the Nord elections. All that M. Mermiex
has stated on the subject is correct M.
Mermelx even requested me to supply him
with detailed note of the sums paid. 1
SAID TO MIN: 1t is useless TO stir up the
ashes OF the dead.''
Comte de Paris sent YOU an ACKNOWLEDGE
ment, guaranteed by The members of the |
RoyaIIst Committee, stating that you would |
be repaid alter the royalist restoration, ex-
penses you had incurred for Boulangism."
said her interviewer
1t is correct that these 3, 900. 900 were to |
be repaid me on the royaiist restoration,
out there never was an acknowledgment.
ana stllI less any guarantee, of the Royal |
Isl COMMITTEE. The signature of the Comte |
de Paris would have suficed."
did the Comte de Paris not nav anv
money?'
Not one SOU. 1 believe he requested his |
friends to organize fund in order to meet |
the Boulangist necessities
Has the Comte de Paris met General |
Boulanger?''
MEETING IN LONDON,
'Yes, once in London, in NV presence
one month before the September elections
General BOulanger requested me to bring |
about an interview between him and the |
Comte de Paris. When communicated TO |
the Comte this desire of the General. he
seemed surprised. Why said he. should |
there be this interview? 1t is impossible.
cannot receive him at the Sheen House, |
II is not at the Sheen House. L replied. |
that you will receive him. 1t is here in
nv apartments at the Alexandra Hotel.
You come to see me pretty frequently. The
General does so, too. If it is known that
you have met, we will say that it is an acci-
dent thai brought you together
'Comte de Paris accepted. The inter
view lasted an hour and a half Domestic
and foreign politics were talked about"
Was any engagement entered into?"
Ihe Comte de Paris promised the assist
anee OF ms friends and money to subsidize
candidate approved by the General, he
did not ask in exchange if the policy of the
General were triumphant in the Chamber
that the law expelling Princes should be
repealed