The duel between General Boulanger and Monsieur Floquet, then President of the Chamber des Députés, in the gardens of Compte Dillon at Neuilly; the above illustration is from the French magazine L’Illustration of July 21, 1888.
The New York Times wrote on July 12: “It is reported that in consequence of the occurrences in the Chamber of Deputies Gen. Boulanger and M. Floquet will fight a duel. MM. Clemenceau and Perlin are said to have consented to serve as seconds for M. Floquet and Count Dillon and M. Laguerre for Gen. Boulanger.”
Floquet after a break of 20 years, had just taken up fencing again at the advice of his physician. In the first exchange, he parried Boulanger’s direct attack. During a corps-a-corps, he was injured slightly on the ankle, while Boulanger was injured in the hand. The seconds intervened, but neither wound was considered severe enough to end the fight.
Again, the general “tried to force the conclusion, and hurled himself upon Floquet, endeavoring to reach his chest. Floquet parried the attack, and in striking up his adversary’s sword, raised his own, on which the General ran, ‘as it were, head-foremost,’ and was wounded to a depth of two inches in the throat. The surgeon in attendance then declared Boulanger for disabled, and the combat terminated”. The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 24 (October 1900 to March 1901), London: Ingram Brothers, 1901; at 315.
La Monde Illustré of July 21, 1888 provided the moment that General Boulanger was hit in the throat (illustrated by Reichan).
Here again the hit from another vantage point, again from the Journal illustré, reprinted in the Diary Illustrate of August 2, 1888:
And again from a slightly different perspective:
And here’s the somewhat smug Floquet, right after the duel was terminated by the medics; from the L’Univers illustré—Journal Hebdomadaire of July 21, 1888:
An interesting Chinese perspective on this duel was published in the Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW) of May 18, 1889, at 31, with an illustration by a “Chinese artist”:

A cartoon of the “Glorious Vanquished” in the Viennese Der Floh (“The Flea”) of July 22, 1888. Boulanger, in heavily French-accented German, says: “I only fall to show ze enemy of la France how I will throw them to the ground”.
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An American, Chinese and Austrian point of view on a French duel from 1888…
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