Duel. The brightest, most tragic and most ridiculous

IN AND. Dahl considered the words "duel" and “duel” synonyms. He called a duel a fight with famous rites, on call. In a broader sense, it is a “contest, the struggle of the two opposing sides”.
Duel refers to the category of popular historical subjects that attract the attention of not only professional historians, but also the general public, familiar with this topic primarily in historical novels and films. The latter (especially the novels of Alexander Dumas) and formed a certain stereotype of perception of the fight, which in the modern mass consciousness is firmly associated with such concepts as honor, nobility and justice.
In fact, the duels, like any historical phenomenon, under their centuries -old history have undergone significant changes, and its rules were transformed depending on the time and country. And not always their reason was the protection of honor and dignity ...
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