Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — Famous Fencing Masters. [ARTICLE]

Famous Fencing Masters.

Metternich says, In his Memories, that he was sent to Strasbourg in the summer of 1788, and that he had the same fencing master as Bonaparte, who had just left the school. This fencing master, a M. Justet, called on Metternich when he was passing through Strasbourg, In 1806, and remarked that it was a funny thing that he should have given Metternich fencing lessons shortly after having glvei; some to Napoleon. "I hope,” he added, “that my pupils, the emperor of the French and the Austrian ambassador fn Paris, will think of fighting each other!” An old Almanac'd'Alsace also witnesses to the fact that there was, In that year, a fencing master of the name of Justet living in Strasbourg.