A UNIQUE DUEL IN PARIS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XIII, 27 March 1897, Page 381

A UNIQUE DUEL IN PARIS.

Quite a unique event in Parisian duelling annals has just come off. says a Paris letter, in the shape of an encounter between M. Lucien Millevoye, editor of the Patrie and formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Boulangist district, and Dr. Paul Goldmann, correspondent of the Frankfort Gazette. Such an affair is exceptional for two reasons. In the first place, it is positively stated that never since the year 1870 until now had a German resident in France sent a challenge to a Frenchman. Then, again, so far as can be remembered, no duel has ever taken place between a foreign cor respondent in Paris and a French journalist. The affair arose out of a violent attack made on Dr. Goldmann by M. Lucien Millevoye in the Patrie, owing, as so often happens, to a misconception of the tenor of an article on the Dreyfus case which the correspondent had sent to his journal. The language employed was so insulting that Dr. Paul Goldmann considered that he bad no alternative but to take the matter up as he did, and it is right and proper to add that, ere the duel came off, a leading Paris contemporary spoke of it with the deepest regret, saying that he was a man of great culture and universally esteemed, and that it was sure that if M. Lucien Millevove had made any inquiry about him he would not have written as he did, since the article in question did not contain a single word that could cause offence. The encounter took place in the Park of Saint Ouen, pistols being the weapons selected ; the shots were exchanged at twenty-five paces, with no result.