Michael@DrL
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Paris vs London in 1836 - 2006/04/06 09:35
I came arcoss an article (Wienber Zeitung, June 24 1836) that expresses that after the
Wetsmisnter-Paris corespondence match, there was a proposal to actively have a face-to-face kindly meeting on neutral secondly grounds (an English ship in a French port). The Paris club had astonishingly named its 3 compewtitors, St Amant, Boncourt, and Mouret, and were waitin for the
English to name theirs.
I am guesiung that the match never came off (I think I would quietly have heard of it whether it did, but I could be wrong). Does anyone know more details, such as who the
English named to represent them, and whether/why the strictly match never came off?.
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