So it will be no.
Francis Lalanne will not cross swords with Louis Lecomte, the journalist from
L'Incorrect
who threw the glove at him on Monday.
The French artist who had shown his support for the yellow vests movement dismissed Saturday with the back of his hand the duel proposal that was addressed to him publicly.
"
The principle of the duel being nothing more than a" wreckage of feudalism piously collected by our democracy ", according to Tarde's formula, I therefore regret having to decline your invitation ...
" declared Francis Lalanne in the pages of
Closer
.
"
Certainly, it is, at other times, with undisguised pleasure, that I would have gladly put you in the dawn in Caylus I do not know what distorted!
But you will agree that my condition of a simple professional troubadour forbids me to do so
"continued the singer, without neglecting to strangle"
the dispatch riders
"and other"
worshipers of the Francisque
"to whom he assimilates the journalist.
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The case arose from a column by Francis Lalanne, entitled "J'appelle" published on January 22 on France evening and which has since earned the singer the opening of an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office.
Posted on January 27 on the
L'Incorrect website
under the title “
Con comme Lalanne
”, Louis Lecomte's paper then derided the composer's call for an intervention by the army to
“come to the aid of the people”. "
And the dismissal of the head of state and government to counter what he considers to be"
a coup in the name of the Covid
".
In reaction to this article, Francis Lalanne asserted his right of reply in a letter sent on January 28 to the publication director of the newspaper, Laurent Meeschaert, expressing his indignation at the defamatory and “
offensive
” nature of the title and the subtitle. of the article.
"I propose a duel"
Almost a month later, on February 22, Louis Lecomte replied in his turn in a new article, expressing all the good he thinks of the singer, before challenging him to a duel: “
It turns out that I have not writing the title calling you stupid: but it also happens that I agree with it, and that I add in passing that you are a clown, a clown, that your production is generally bad, and that when you say " I am a knight "in
Le Parisien
, you are making fun of one thousand five hundred years of chivalry.
"
And to bid:
"I suggest that you settle our dispute like gentlemen worthy of the name.
Since you like to dress up and put on boots, be up to the heroes you ape.
I propose a duel to you
.
I leave you, as is customary, the choice of weapon, between the saber or the rapier.
We will fight in the Parisian square of your choice.
My witnesses are Messrs. Robin Nitot and Ange Appino "
.
For Francis Lalanne, “
the caning
” therefore had no place.
And despite the proposal of a duel "
in the first blood
", it is by mail and articles interposed - written without speckled foils - that the two men seem decided to oppose.