The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-10-10
THE CODE DUELLO
1t Had It's Origin In the Barba-
4 rous Wager Of Battle.
QUEER coMBATs IN FRANCE
One Fatal Affair Of Homer Was Fought
Out In Balloons, and Another Was
! Decided With Billiard Balls as
Wsapons-A Duel Between Women.

One Fatal Affair Of Homer Was Fought
Out In Balloons, and Another Was
Decided With Billiard Balls as
4 Weapons-A Duel Between Women.
me ioea lroIn winch ens cois uueao
was developed came down rom the
north with the barbarians who over
ran the Roman empire. They brought
with them the ordeal or wager Of bat
tla or tudicial duel. which sprang from
xh.,r idaa 70 t,obt n ont and let the
s-,,s1. . =. ,vnooarca ~ tba accused he
Ssts~v,tned ~ tba ros,,lt of the hattie
ct~aroalv enouob the judicial duel
xzss cons,dored . atttno mode az set
t,, 4. assnntas hstwaan man and win
NJ IT, ac,,ai,va a. rn,cb a. nossfble the
s,,aara1,tv ~ .nch ] contest tha man
s1ss ,,,,t n III n vbicb ha was
= h. :, nm 70 ths .,rdIa while ore Of
h,s anne YVES hound tn his side.
co,nat,n,az a barral toat the nlsee Of
nj FOR a waanon the man had a
f.to, or sftcL the woman q Kind of
r,sng With ] Stone In n
The story Of the duel In the modern
.ensa NAV he datad from 15o7. when
Er.ncta 7 gava the liz to tbe Emperor
fybarles " proceeding which prom
5sad "a lead 70 > combat of excep-
fionaI interest. but which never took
place because mutual friends recon
ciled the pugnacious monarchs.
Nv this time the judicial duel had
been gradually abolished. and the pri-
vate duel. fought before witnesses,
who seconded the principals in the en-
counter, came In. Sometimes the sec
onds also mixed 1t up. and instead Of
q duel there was a quartet or sextet.
The day of dueling has passed long
since in England and America and
only fingers in France as a sort Of
harmless comedy.
Several duels have been fought be-
tween women, and there are two or
three instances of duels between a
man and q woman, In which the man
did not always get the better Of 1t.
One of these duels between women
was that between two Frelchwomen,
the Marquise de Nesle and the Com
tesse de PoIignac, in the eighteenth
century. The two titled women were
rivals for the affections of a certain
duke, and an incident occurred which
brought on bitter quarrel between
the two Jealous grande danes.
AS result Of this the marquise chal-
Ienged the comtesse to fight her duel,
and the challenge was accepted. Pts
tolls were chosen and the Boise de Bou-
logne selected as the place Of meeting.
when the women had taken their
places the comtesse called out to the
maruuise do Won fire first. madame.
ana. mind Won don't miss me: don't
imagine for moment that / am going
to miss your The marauise fred. but
missed and hit q neighboring tree. The
comfesse smiled "Your hand trembles
with passion. madame" cried she.
l4You are loetfp
The comtesse aimed deliberately at
tba head of tbe marnuise and Aired.
The narouise fell with a great cry as
of one who had received a mortal
WOUND. 0uC the DulieC MAO 0UlY cut
away a minute piece OF her shell-like
ear. All paris lau0hed--even the duke
Two duels have been fought from
balloons The most interesting was
that between NJ. de Grandpre and M.
Ie phone which took place on NAV g.
1903 why thew selected balloons is
NOT clear h.,f nossibJv hecause balloon
inc was one az tha graves ~ the dav.
Tach s1uelist with his second got
INTO ! balloon n the Aeld adjoining fhe
T,ntlerias and ~ the nresenca ~ 3
creat crowd tbe cords wore emf and mn
shot tha haI,oons The conbatan MIS-
lvvas.a arrnad win hlundorbnssas A.
ahont soo foot from tba Ground IL
p,oua tsraa ora crordrra ,r,rnos,atol,
rasr,ordad Tba l.t+ar,s shot res u.
fact,va and nanatratsd + = piona,s hel /
loon Witch 70 n;dlv dascanaad ana T.
piara ana ~. saooaa ,ra-o da.had !,
and his second descended safely some