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Dueling is usually regarded as something romantic and associated, first and foremost, with nobility, honor, and courage, with Alexandre Dumas's historical novels featuring swashbuckling musketeers and haughty French aristocrats, King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu... But in reality, duels were not always an example of honor and nobility.
In the new episode of “How It Was,” we will tell the whole truth about duels. You will learn why the nobles preferred to sort things out with a sword rather than a court, where and why the act of dueling emerged, and how the duel of honor was supposed to cut back on unchecked violence. We will tell you how the dueling codes and weapons changed, what an “American duel” is, why the seconds were sometimes exposed to no less danger than the swordsmen themselves, and finally - why the duelists were reprimanded for mercy and even for being too skillful in swordsmanship.
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Materials used:
Gallica - The BnF digital library, NYPL Digital Collections
Photographs used:
Wolfgang Sauber / CC BY-SA 4.0
Featuring footage from the films:
The Countess de Monsoreau, dir. Emile Shotar, 1913
Three Musketeers, dir. Fred Niblo, 1921
Romeo and Juliet, dir. George Cukor, 1936
"The Sign of Zorro", dir. Ruben Mamulyan, 1940
"War and Peace,” dir. Sergey Bondarchuk, 1967
"The Duelists,” dir. Ridley Scott, 1977