November 1911. French. Silent.
Yet another duel between journalists over coverage of Marie Curie. Pierre Mortier, a friend of Marie Curie, was a writer for "Gil Blas." Gustave Téry wrote for "L'Oeuvre."

The duel was held at the Parc des Prince velodrome.

In 1911, L'Œuvre took part in the campaign to denigrate Marie Curie. It accused her of having an affair with Paul Langevin , the right arm of the late Pierre Curie. L'Œuvre published the letters of the young widow preceded by an editorial with xenophobic/anti-semetic accents by Gustave Téry. He presented Marie Curie as an ambitious Polish woman who had, for glory, clung to the coattails of Curie and now clung to those of Langevin.

On November 22, 1911, Gustave Téry, ​​deemed himself offended following an article published in Pierre Mortier's “Gil Blas”: Letter from Léon de Montesquiou, countersigned by Jacques Bainville, representing Léon Daudet at Action française.

Minutes of the conditions of the duel were signed by the witnesses and representatives of the duelists, Urbain Gohier and Henri Bourgeois for Gustave Téry; Périvier and Georges Breittmayer for Pierre Mortier.

A meeting having been recognized as inevitable, it was agreed that there would be fifteen meters of ground behind each fighter; only one warning. The fight would cease on the advice of witnesses to a wound and report of the doctors following the fight.

On the second round, Mr. Pierre Mortier suffered a penetrating injury to the forearm. Witnesses declared that it was impossible for him to continue.

Dispatches giving an account of the duel specified that the adversaries did not reconcile

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