(funky music)
- Which is why I clone dinosaurs
and then kill them all again.
(desk crashes) (boys grunt)
- Stop calling me stupid. - Stop being stupid.
- Never (grunts)!
Ow, ow, my butt! (boys grunt)
- You like that, you like that?
- [Brad] I hate it, I hate it!
- 50 bucks says Jason wins, any takers?
- Stop them! - Why?
For centuries the highest members of society
settled disputes with dangerous, sometimes deadly duels.
What makes this any different?
- Oh no, guys, stop, she's gearing up for a lesson.
(dramatic music) - We're done.
No lesson needed.
- And they could be pretty weird.
- We get it, fighting is bad, we're best buds now.
(both laugh nervously)
- Pointers at three paces.
- [Students] No, no, no, no, no!
(laser zaps)
- Yay, I won! (laser zaps)
(orchestral music) - Whoa!
- Dammit! - Paris, in the early 1800's,
things are tense between political factions, the royalists,
who supported the return of the monarchy,
and the imperialists, who supported Napoleon.
Duels were a legal way to fight and kill your enemies,
and people like Colonel Barbier-Dufai
were looking to start fights with royalists.
- Oops. - No problem.
- Oh, pardon me. - No, pardon me.
- Oops! - Sir, you seem
to be stumbling a lot, do you need a doctor?
- I walk where I want to walk, you piece of shit.
- Okay, have a nice day.
- Yeah, well, your hat is dumb.
- My hat?
My hat, my royal hat?
I fucking kill you, imperialist bastard!
(men grunt)
- God, these morons fight over the smallest thing.
- It was an insult to his hat,
but also to his royalist leanings and his honor.
The two decided to resolve their differences
with a very unusual duel.
- We shall sit in the back of this carriage,
tied together with one hand tied behind our backs,
and we will fight with daggers.
- Sounds cool, go on.
- The carriage will make two laps
around the Place du Carrousel,
whoever is alive at the end wins.
- I see no problem with this.
- The fuck, so they just had a stabbing contest?
- Pretty much. - Let's do this!
(energetic music) (men grunt)
- [Raoul] I'll kill you!
(energetic music) (men grunt)
- Oh shit, this is gonna be bad.
(dramatic music)
- [Students] Ew!
- Raoul died, Dufai survived but barely.
He was stabbed four times in the chest,
and his face and chin were torn by Raoul's teeth.
- (coughs) Yay, I won! (students groan)
- So two nobodies had an idiotic fight,
that doesn't mean people condone this behavior,
they're just as stupid as Brad and Jason.
(boys grunt) - Ow!
- It's not just morons in petty fights.
History's most influential figures have engaged in duels,
including America's early leaders.
- Like Hamilton, oh my god, are we going to see Hamilton?
- No, oh my god, no, even I can't get
into Hamilton, and I'm borderline magic.
No, we're gonna go see Andrew Jackson.
- (sighs) Jackson. (funky music)
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- Yay, I won! (dramatic music)
- Huh, I guess with violence, everyone loses.