[duel] - procès-verbal d'un duel entre ALbert Soulacroix et Maxime Formont - 1897

Meeting minutes, signed by the four witnesses. Paris, July 24, 1897.

Maxime Formont considers himself offended by a telegram from Albert Soulacroix and asks him for “reparation by arms.” After examination of the matter, the witnesses acknowledge that it rests on a mistake by Formont: the telegram is declared “not valid” and there is “no longer any occasion for a meeting.”
Signed by Jules Guérin and Charles Hiaudeau for Formont, Davin de Champclos and Louis Perrée for Soulacroix.

Rare document: these minutes were generally published in the press, and the original signed copies have rarely been preserved.

Maxime Formont (Bar-sur-Aube, 1864 – Vincennes, 1940), poet and novelist, was a sub-librarian at the Bibliothèque Mazarine. He received several prizes from the Académie française.

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