They have captured not only Niort, as we heard yesterday, but Parthenay." "Peste! That is bad news, indeed.

What a blunder it was to let them slip through their fingers, when they might have seized them with two or three hundred men, in Burgundy." "It seems to me that they are making just the same mistake here," another put in.

"As Jeanne of Navarre is well nigh as dangerous as the Admiral himself, why don't they seize her and her cub, and carry them to Paris ?" "Because they hope that she will go willingly, of her own accord, Saint Amand.

La Motte-Fenelon has been negotiating with her, for the last fortnight, on behalf of the court.

It is clearly far better that she should go there of her own will, than that she should be taken there a prisoner.