Word: renouvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that this challenge was somehow mixed up with the innocence of the entire Daladier Cabinet, the honor of French politics and maybe with the Stavisky Case. It might settle the whole issue of "manifestants" and "assassins" as against "rioters" and "statesmen." He read the card: "Jacques Renouvin, Avocat." Then he sent out his seconds...
...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...
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