After this reply, it will be realised that M. Gaillardet had no right to delay our duel, as, not having spared me less than I had him, it was I who considered myself the injured party. So, after a fresh call on the part of my seconds, the meeting was fixed for 17 October 1834. [Footnote 1: _Histoire de Paris,_ by Félibien, vol. iii. of the proofs, p. 378, Collect, B. [Footnote 2: "Epigramm, libro," p. 140. edit. Lugd. Batav.] [Footnote 3: "In fact, Fourcade, one of my best friends, son of the Consul-General of that name, had come a few days previously to make me this offer. It will not be surprising, I think, in a letter of this kind, that I mention every one by name; for a name written out plainly saves me testimonials and certificates."] [Footnote 4: This treaty is still in the possession of M. Harel.] [Footnote 5: Verteuil is M. Haxel's secretary.] [Footnote 6: "This had already happened to me in _Richard_; but, this time, it was not the voice of my _amour propre_ which compelled me to restrain myself, but the entreaties of my collaborator. Ten times during the performance, Dinaux and M. Harel came into my box to beg me with growing solicitations as the drama increased in popularity to give out my name. They have not forgotten the firmness of my refusal, I believe; but neither shall I forget the friendly delicacy of their entreaties."] [Footnote 7: "The object of that declaration was to make it known that I resigned being put first, and that I had never solicited that position."] [Footnote 8: See Appendix.] [Footnote 9: "'I, the undersigned, one of the managers of the newspaper, _l'Avant-Scène,_ ex-inspector-general of the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, under M. de Lhéry, M. Harel's predecessor, assert that, a short time before M. de Lhéry's retirement, M. F. Gaillardet communicated with me concerning a MS. of _La Tour de Nesle,_ in five acts without scenes, of which he was the sole author; that, later, and before his departure for the provinces, M. Gaillardet showed me a new plan of the same drama in scenes, in which was pretty nearly the whole of the original _Tour de Nesle;_ a plan that had just been settled, he said, between himself and M. Harel. In witness of which, etc., DUPERRET'] [Footnote 10: "Here is M. Barba's statement-- "I think I remember (it is more than two years ago) that half the purchase money of _La Tour de Nesle_ was given, in cash, to M. Dumas on his saying that that was agreed upon with M. Gaillardet, which the latter denied. He was then obliged by the terms of our agreement to accept my note for his share. BARBA '29 _August_ 1834' ]