172-178.] The results of the battle of Dreux were serious, and still more serious from the fate of the chiefs than from the number of the dead.

The commanders of the two armies, the Constable de Montmorency, and the Prince of Conde, were wounded and prisoners.

One of the triumvirs, Marshal de Saint-Andre, had been killed in action.

The Catholics' wavering ally, Anthony de Bourbon, King of Navarre, had died before the battle of a wound which he had received at the siege of Rouen; and on his death-bed had resumed his Protestant bearing, saying that, if God granted him grace to get well, he would have nothing but the gospel preached throughout the realm.

The two staffs (_etats-majors_), as we should now say, were disorganized: in one, the Duke of Guise alone remained unhurt and at liberty; in the other, Coligny, in Conde's absence, was elected general-in-chief of the Protestants.