Footnote:
[A] When a student in Germany, the writer had twelve months’ drill in fencing from a French emigrant, and saw a fencing-match à l’outrance between that equivocal personage the Chevalier d’Eon—then an elderly man or woman—with a young and vigorous fencing-master, an emigrant nobleman, who, like Colonna, by rapid involutions, so entangled the foil of the Chevalier, that he was at length quite exhausted, and unable to ward off the incessant attacks of his adversary. He recollects, too, a curious fact, that the Chevalier, when fencing, emitted, whenever he lunged out, a succession of sounds from the throat, which he can only compare with the short grunts of a frightened pig.—April 1858.