Even his admirers were forced to own that, in the field, he was not a match for Luxemburg.

In France the news was received with transports of joy and pride.

The Court, the Capital, even the peasantry of the remotest provinces, gloried in the impetuous valour which had been displayed by so many youths, the heirs of illustrious names.

It was exultingly and fondly repeated all over the kingdom that the young Duke of Chartres could not by any remonstrances be kept out of danger, that a ball had passed through his coat that he had been wounded in the shoulder.

The people lined the roads to see the princes and nobles who returned from Steinkirk.