New-York tribune., 1901-01-21
FOUGHT WITH SWORDS
BARON DE ROTHSCHILD SEVERELY
WOUNDS THE COUNT DE LUBER-
SAC IN A DUEL.

Paris, Jan. 20.-The long expected duel be-
tween the Count de Lubersac and Baron Robert
de Rothschild was fought with swords at IL
o'clock this morning on Baron Edmond de Roth
schild's estate. at BouIogne-sur-Seine The car
riages with the principals. seconds, doctors and
a few friends arrived there from Paris shortly
before eleven. Count de Lubersac's seconds
were NJ. Sohege and Count de Laborde and
those Of Baron de RothschiId were Baron
Leonino and Viscount de Bonby The duel be-
gan at lilo. and lasted ten minutes, when
Count de Lubersac received lunge perforating
his arm at the elbow. to the armpit. The duel
was then stopped. Both the Count and the
Baron fought most determinedly neither
hinched and neither showed the slightest de-
sire TO spare the other. Sixteen engagements
took place, all of a desperate character. The
combatants attacked each other furiously The
sleeves of their shirts were literally torn to
pieces by the points of their swords as the
duellists repeatedly lunged at each other. Sew
eral times they came to close quarters. and their
seconds We're obliged to separate them.
At the sixteenth onslaught Baron de Roth
schid lunged at the Count. who tried to parry,
but failed, and the Baron's sword penetrated
his arm just above the elbow, and issued at
the armpit. The spectators hastened around the
wounded man, and two we'll known physicians
Drs. Berger and Poirrier, examined the wound.
They declared the Counts life was not in danger,
Count de Lubersac was then driven back to
Paris.
Baron de Rothschild is still performing mill
tary service with the 54th Regiment of Infantry
in garrison at Compiegne. He only attained his
majority yesterday, and lost time in settling
his account with Count de Lubersac.
The Observation-Disclosures incident. which brought
out remarkable crop of dueIs had it's origin in a
boys quarrel, dating from the time when Count
de Lubersac and Baron Robert de RothschiId were
at the same college. They quarrelled one day in
r~gard to a tennis court which occupied by
Rothschild, and which Count de Lubersac wanted.
During the quarrel Lubersac called his adversary
sale Juf' c'dirty Jew'O. Ill feeling was revived
after they left college by expression attributed
TO Baron Robert de Rothschid respecting Count
de Lubers2c, which repeated to the latter
soon after his admission the Jockey Club. The
Count then wrote a letter, in which he announced
himself ready to meet the Baron the field Of
honor. although he expressed it, ''you know
how you and your people inspire me with dis
gust"
Baron Robert de RothschiId sent as his seconds
NM de Saint-Alary and de Neufize Count de
Lubersac, who appointed Count de Dion and
Count Boni de Castellane his seconds. Baron
Robert de ROthsChild's seconds stated in a letter
subsequently published that their efforts to Sc
cure encounter had failed because Of the re-
tusai OF Count de LubersaC's seconds to allow the
de Rothschild was still minor. Letters Of Baron
Robert TO his seconds and to the Count added fuel
to the flames. and the Count announced his pur-
pose to send again his seconds when the Baron
should attain his majority. He also wrote to Baron
Roberts cousin. Baron Edouard de ROthschild. son
Of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. stating that as
the of the head of the Rothschid family he
should hold him responsible and should insult
him their first meeting
A duel followed between Count de Lubersac and
Baron Edouard de Rothschd, April I2. OF last
year. In which the latter slightly wounded in
the forearm in the first bout.
Count de LuberSac. few days previously, fought
with and wounded NJ. Michel Ephrussi and a third
duel. arising from the same controversy was
fought between Count de Dion and VI. de Saint
Alary, in which the latter wounded.