. Ninety-three . .^x> C H A U E T T E. Stand so that I can mount on your shoulders. Jump :;p. Your gun. Take it. Aud Rochejaequeleiu leaped into the town, aud the towers whichDuguesclin had besieged were takeu without the aid of ladders. Theypreferred a cartridge to a gold louis. They wept when they lost sightof their village belfry. To run away seemed perfectly natural to them; 25-1 XIXETY- THREE. at suoh timfs the leaders would cry : Throiv off your sahofs, but keepyour fiuiisP AVlieu munitions were wanting, they counted their rosariesand rushed fortli to seize the pdwder iu the caissons
. Ninety-three . .^x> C H A U E T T E. Stand so that I can mount on your shoulders. Jump :;p. Your gun. Take it. Aud Rochejaequeleiu leaped into the town, aud the towers whichDuguesclin had besieged were takeu without the aid of ladders. Theypreferred a cartridge to a gold louis. They wept when they lost sightof their village belfry. To run away seemed perfectly natural to them; 25-1 XIXETY- THREE. at suoh timfs the leaders would cry : Throiv off your sahofs, but keepyour fiuiisP AVlieu munitions were wanting, they counted their rosariesand rushed fortli to seize the pdwder iu the caissons of the Repuhlicauartillery; later, DElbée demanded powder from the English. If theyhad wounded men among them, at the approach of the enemy they con-cealed these in the grain-fields or among the ferns, and Avent back insearch of them when the fight was ended. They had no Their garments were torn to hits. Peasants and nol)les wrapped them-selves in any rags they could iind. Roger Mouliniers wore a turlianand a iielisse taken from the wardrobe of the theatre of La Flèche ; th(iCliv;dier de Renuvilliers worc^ :;. barristers gown, and set a womansbonnet on liis lie;id over n woolen caj). All woi-e tluwhite belt and ascarf; ditfeiciit gi-ades were markt^d by the knots. Stotillet had a. redknot; La, Koclie,jae(iuelein had a, black knot; Wiinpfen, who was halfa (iirondist, and who for that mattei never left Normandy, wore theleather jacket of the Carabots of Caen. They had women in their ranks:Madame de licscnre, who became^ .Madame <le la lîochejaccpielein ; IflWU T Y-TH A* EE. 255 Thérèse de Mollien, the mistress of La Roiiarie—she Avho burned thelist of tlie cliiefs of the parishes ; Madame de la Eochefoiieauld—beau-tifiil, youug—who, sabre in hand, rallied the peasants at the foot of thegreat tower of the castle of Puy Roussean ; and
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