Evening Herald - Friday, April 19, 1895
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
[...]Mr Catulle Mendes, who fought a duel with M Jules Huret on Wednesday, is one of the most brilliant of the French poets. Mrs Crawford once wrote of him that he commanded the whole mechanism of the poet. But she added: "He has always sung that bliss entirely lies in material enjoyment. Practising what he preached, he now pays for it in depressed spirits and physical apathy. He has to reanimate himself with electricised baths, and if he is going to a dinner party he has a mustard plaster applied to that part of the body which is the seat of digestion." The quarrel arose out of some remarks made by M Huret, in which he referred to the amicable relations between M Mendes and Oscar Wilde, to which M Mendes took exception.