He mended but slowly, and Turenne, a month after the surrender of the town, came in one day to see him, and said, "The surgeon tells me that it will be some months before you are fit for service again, and that you will need a period of perfect rest to recover your health.

There is a convoy of invalids returning to France tomorrow, and I think it were best that you should accompany them.

There is no rest to be obtained here, and I know that you will be fretting at being unable to ride, and at your forced inactivity.

I shall give orders that you are conveyed in a horse litter to Sedan, where my brother, the Duc de Bouillon, will gladly entertain you for my sake, and you must remain there until entirely restored to strength.
"I do not think that there will be much doing on this side of the Alps in the next campaign.

Unhappily France has troubles of her own, and will find it difficult to spare more troops in this direction, and without reinforcements we can but act on the defensive.