A DUEL BY CANDLELIGHT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2098, 13 November 1880, Page 3

A DUEL BY CANDLELIGHT.

A correspond pet of the “ New York Tribune ” states that a most romantic duel wsb recently fought by candlelight between a young cavalry officer and a student of the Ecole des Mines, Paris. The officer, M- de Montfort, went to dine in company with another young fellow, M. de Yillarnon, and a fair friend, Mdlle. Clemenoe Ohapuis, at a bouillon on the Boulevard St, Michael, frequented, according to the expression of the latter, by the most oomme il/aut ladies of the quarter. All were enjoying their repast when a certain M. Protoche, a pupil at the School of Mines, sat down at an adjoining table and began to “ make eyes ” at Mdlle. Ohapuis. Her host gradually grew more and more impatient at these marked signs of M. Protoohe’s admiration, and on an angry remark from its object he got Up and went to the table at which his annoyor was sitting and expostulated. A discussion ensued, and M. de Montfort presented his card, and the whole party adjourned to Mdlle. Ohapuis’ apartment, in the Eue des Ecoles, to fight the matter out with swords. The encounter took place by the light of three candles and an oil lamp, M. de Montfort eventually receiving a couple of wounds, whioh laid him up for a fortnight. Matters were kept dark for some time, until the fair cause of the duel unluckily happened to quarrel with her waiting woman, and in revenge the latter informed the police of all the facts of the incident.