Images of topless women follow. Proceed at your own risk.
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| The three images shown in this post are popularly attributed to Emile-Antoine Bayard. The problem with that attribution is that poor Emile died in Cairo a year before the duel happened. |
In 1892 Princess Pauline Metternich (56 years old) and Countess Anastasia Kilmannsegg (32 years old) had a dispute over the proper way to arrange flowers at the Viennese International Exhibition of Music and Theater. Neither would concede their point.
They decided to settle the matter by dueling with foils (like Zorro used) to "first blood".
Since dueling was illegal in Austria, they traveled to Liechtenstein to settle the matter.
The physician who attended the duel informed them that risk of infection would be reduced if they dueled without clothing. I suspect that neither woman trusted that the other would report a wound, either. So they agreed to duel topless.
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I suspect there are some members of the British Monarchy who have been targeted by repeated character assassination attempts who would would love to exercise this method of problem resolution.
If they do, and if the video becomes available on X I will make an exception and join X.
That doctor was one dirty old man....
ReplyDeleteGood guess, but wrong.
Delete"Presiding over the encounter was Baroness Lubinska, a Polish noblewoman who had been sent for from Warsaw to oversee the violence. The Baroness was a medical doctor, a rarity for women at that time, and rarer than that, she practiced Listerite principles. This was an important asset for someone who might have to field-dress rapier wounds. The Baroness had seen first-hand how easily infection could set in with even superficial cuts in battle because dirty clothes would be stabbed into the wound and make it fester, so she told the male footmen and coachman to turn around and ordered the dueling parties to strip to the waist."
Classy
ReplyDeleteBut hilarious, women have changed.
Sooo, how were the flowers arranged?
ReplyDeleteIdaho Bob
"Beautifully!" and it is unhealthy to argue otherwise.
DeleteI love seeing Ghetto Girl Fights on Twitter.
ReplyDelete"It aint ghetto until the boobies are flopping out"
Just noticed picture # 3 looks like someone taking a selfie..........
ReplyDeleteAHHH! The famous Matthew W rapier-like wit.
DeleteThat is funny.
I think they should bring back duelling and impose its code on our leaders. The parties don’t talk in the House of Commons, all they do is insult and accuse each other of awful crimes and incompetence. I’d love to see Justin Turdo and half his adversaries kill each other… 😂
ReplyDeleteBaroness Lubinska said to her friends later, "And they fell for it! Can you believe that?"
ReplyDeleteNowadays, it's handbags at 10 paces. Not trivial if you have ever felt the weight of a woman's handbag. You definitely don't want to be hit around the head by that!
ReplyDeletePhil B
Interestingly, Princess Metternich denied the duel ever happened.
ReplyDeleteReading her biography, it was quite a life none the less. Her live encompassed the grandeur and fall of both the Empire of Napoleon III and Austria Hungary (she lived 1836-1921).
Would denying it indicate she lost?
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