Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . ay ensued,while the formal preliminaries were gone last the combatants advance, and with one swift,sure stroke the famous coup de Jarnac has suc-ceeded, and Chataigneraie the boastful lies bleed-ing, with his leg half severed, on the ground. TheKing reluctantly approved the victory and movedsullenly back to the house of Baptiste Gondy nearerParis. But all was not yet over. The crowd, an-gered already at their long wait, hungry, too, sofar away from the good inns of Paris, and with half-understood feelings of rese
Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . ay ensued,while the formal preliminaries were gone last the combatants advance, and with one swift,sure stroke the famous coup de Jarnac has suc-ceeded, and Chataigneraie the boastful lies bleed-ing, with his leg half severed, on the ground. TheKing reluctantly approved the victory and movedsullenly back to the house of Baptiste Gondy nearerParis. But all was not yet over. The crowd, an-gered already at their long wait, hungry, too, sofar away from the good inns of Paris, and with half-understood feelings of resentment at the unfair atti-tude of the King and the haughtiness of the Courtwhich had been thus unwittingly put on its trial,broke unrestrainedly through the fenced arena andsacked Chataigneraies tent. They pocketed theplate, they ate the delicacies raw, they trampled 1 A miniature in the Ceremonie des Gages de Bataille, aMS. in the Bibl. Nat., gives many details of a judicial combatsuch as this. lentij II. cftom a portrait, by (oLouet, in the Sittigallery, cFlotence. (8lie nonceaux 301 down the finery and furniture, and at last, not with-out sound scuffles with the archers of the guard,tramped back to Paris in the evening with no goodopinion of the blessings of the opening reign. Ainsi passe la gloire du monde qui trompe tou-jours son maitre, moralises Vieilleville, princi-palement quand on entreprend quelque chosecontre le droit et Iequite. The keynote of Henry character and of theyears that were to come was struck with no uncer-tain sound. The France that had vigour enoughto rise almost unharmed from the extravagances,the mistakes, the wars of Francis I., was crushedby the desperate folly of his son, by the gamblingspirit of adventure which was the one alternativeto the excesses of party struggle, by the fatal neg-ligence and misgovernment which were responsiblefor the horrors of the Civil War and the unspeak-able decay amidst which the last of the Valois wasassassinate
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