Word: godin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private cocktail bar. Then at last he was ready to step out again. The Presidency of the Municipal Council is a one-year job that attracts little public attention but wields great influence with the National Government. A previous President of the Municipal Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced the resignation of Jean Chiappe, but when a Chiappe candidate beat out Pierre Godin for his seat on the Council, that 60-year...
Jean Chiappe promptly challenged Pierre Godin to a duel.* Attempting to weasel, M. Godin at first refused to accept the challenge on the ground that M. Chiappe had "forfeited his dueling rights" by refusing to fight a Corsican editor in 1933. Later he accepted...
...clock in the morning MM. Godin & Chiappe motored out to the big garden of Mme Cotnareaunu, widow of Perfumer François Coty, on the Avenue Raphael. Old-fashioned dueling pistols were loaded with black powder & ball. On the greensward the seconds stepped off 25 paces. The principals turned up their coat collars lest a spot of white shirtfront give a target...
...first shot both men missed. Stiffly they waited while the pistols were reloaded. At the second shot M. Godin crumpled up, pinked in the hip. Jean Chiappe turned on his heel, stalked off to his car without shaking hands. Honor was satisfied, but the adversaries were not reconciled...