"Peasant!" he said, "thou hast supplied my place too quickly," and then dealt him a thundering blow between the eyes.

Pascal was not felled; he raised his arm, and his fist descended on Marcel's head like a bolt.

The soldier attempted to draw his sabre.

When Pascal saw this, he closed with Marcel, grasped him in his arms, and dashed him to the ground, crushed and senseless.
Marcel was about to rise to renew the duel, when suddenly Montluc, who happened to be passing with the Baron of Roquefort, stepped forward and sternly ordered the combatants to separate.

This terrible encounter put an end to the fete.