Arizona republican., 1901-07-17
THE HERO OF THE BouLEvARDs.
M. Laber2esque's Duel with Max Regis
 Was His Forty-ninth Combat.
2l NORTH FIRST AVENUE.

l M Laberdesque, since his two days duel with M Max Regis. has become a sort of hero on the boulevards, where he ia now looked upon with respectful admiration as kind of ideal con.bina- ton of the swashbuckler and knight err rant. Stories of his wild adventures in South America are tod with bated breath. Ills prowess in Paris fencing schools since his arrival here is spoken of with awe. His very name hapa bar barrie sound. like the clash of swords, and Edmond Rostand regrets that he did not know it when he wrote ths bal lad of the Cadets de Gasco2ne. When, after NJ Laberdesque's latest exploit in playing with M. Max Regis at the end of his sword for two hours'a a half one day. then pink,ng him in two seconds the next morning, 1t was found that this combat. counting the two se- ries of engagements as one fight, was exactly the forty-ninth on M LabeTd- esques record. everyone felt that the latter owed 1t to himself and to the world to relate his adventures He has accordingly told a full story of hls life to the Figaro. Though Edmond Res tand thnks him a typical Gascon, he is Cuban by birth and by blood on his mothers side. But his father is a Frenchman of Bearna.s descent, settled in Cuba, where the future fighter was born twenty-seven years ago.
 After a stormy boyhood passed in various public o+hools in Paris. at Pau, and at Havana successively. in all of which he spent his spare time pugilist- ically. hc quarreled with his father al the age Of IS ard went off to Venezuela. where a revolution vas proceeding. ar usual. and where he. naturally. joined the rebellion. The Venezuela revolu- ton having oaimed down. he turned his attention to Cuba. where he actively prepared a popular rising. finding amusement meanwhile by sitting at cafes and breaking rotten eggs or emptyfng sacks of flour over passing Spanlards. As result. he fought fortyJthree duels with the latter Hav- ing thus made Santiago de Cuba too hot a place for himself he took to the bush but after few months of free dom he was shipped off ny his father to Algeria, where he enlisted in the Spahis. In which corps he served five years. On his return to civilian life. a year or so ago, he formed party. and started paper at Algiers in opposition to Max Regis. the leader of the Anti Semites. to whose cause a week or two of NJ Laber6esque's decidedly stren uous tactics did more harm than a year of lawsuits and criminal pros cutions.
 While the swasabuckler in M. Laber- desque came out strongly. during the campaign. he kept up hin character as a gallant knight by issuing solemn proclamation forbiddlng his followers to mix up the ladies In the quarrels." Your readers win recollect the battles arising from tine rivalry between Max Regis and M. Laberde.que. at Algiers. whisl resulted but has not ended in the two days duel at Auteuil. Thia en- counter brought NJ. Laberdesque's rec ord up to f1rty-nine, as between times he had met and wounded at Alglers five of Max Regls's supporters success s'vely in single combat. h Parlsial shooting gallerie:. he whiles away the time by killing a small spider hanging from the ceiling, in the center of her web, at twenty paces.-From a Paris Letter.