Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 420, October 1850

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Discours de la Bataille de Dreux, dieté par François de Lorraine.

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Thus stated by M. de Bouillé. Other writers have called the total force of the Protestants two thousand seven hundred horse and foot.

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Other writers have said that he had already done so, or at least that he was seated under a tree, a recognised prisoner, when he was shot. M. de Bouillé's account leaves a sort of loop-hole, to infer that Montesquiou might have been hardly aware that Condé was a prisoner. Such an inference, however, he probably does not intend to be drawn, and, in either case, it is contrary to historical fact.

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The following couplet, from Oudin's MS. history of the house of Guise, may serve as a specimen of the partisan ditties composed on this occasion: —

"L'an mil cinq cens soixante neuf,Entre Jarnac et Chasteauneuf,Fut porté mort sur une asnesse,Ce grand ennemy de la Messe."