[A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]@TWC D-Link book
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXXIII
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The Prince of Conde was taken at the end, also wounded.

As both of them had good seconds, it made them the less fearful of danger to their own persons, for the constable had M.de Guise, and the Prince of Conde Admiral de Coligny, who showed equally well to the front in the melley.
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Finally I wish to bring forward another matter, which will be supernumerary because it happened after the battle; and that is, the courteous and honorable behavior of the Duke of Guise victorious towards the Prince of Conde a prisoner; which most men, on one side as well as on the other, did not at all think he would have been disposed to exhibit, for it is well known how hateful, in civil wars, are the chiefs of parties, and what imputations are made upon them.


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