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Word: cattiaux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later MM. La Chambre and Renouvin met in a dawn-grey field near St. Malo. M. La Chambre, being the insulted one, had chosen the weapons: standard dueling rapiers with bell guards. The referee, famed Fencing Master Phillippe Cattiaux, held out his rapier and the combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Manifestant v. Assassin | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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