The French troops were dispirited.

The city of Paris was overwhelmed with consternation.

Louis affected to bear his misfortunes with calmness and composure; but the constraint had such an effect upon his constitution, that his physicians thought it necessary to prescribe frequent bleeding, which he accordingly underwent.

At his court no mention was made of military transactions: all was solemn, silent, and reserved.
THE SIEGE OF BARCELONA RAISED.
Had the issue of the campaign in Catalonia been such as the beginning seemed to prognosticate, the French king might have in some measure consoled himself for his disgraces in the Netherlands.

On the sixth day of April king Philip, at the head of a numerous army, undertook the siege of Barcelona, while the count de Thoulouse blocked it up with a powerful squadron.