Uses for Horsehair
David Blackbourn
- Duelling: The Cult of Honour in Fin-de-Siècle Germany by Kevin McAleer
Princeton, 268 pp, £19.95, January 1995, ISBN 0 691 03462 1
Goethe, Heine and Wilhelm von Humboldt did it, although not Wagner; Clemenceau did it on 22 different occasions; characters in Maupassant, Turgenev, Fontane and Schnitzler did it. In 19th-century Europe practically everyone was doing it, except the English. We are talking about fighting duels.
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