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Tarr the french laws would sanction quite a bad wound: laws dealing with duelling in France were far more liberal than in Germany, because French duels seldom resulted in bloodshed or death—a subject of much derision by Germans, who took the culture of honour, and the bloodiness of its result, far more seriously than their French counterparts. A Frenchman noted in 1890 ‘when the duel takes place under conditions of irreproachable fairness, even though it should have a fatal issue, adversaries and witnesses escape most of the time unharmed from the tribunal’ (quoted by Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-siècle Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 184).

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