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MARTIN GUERRE mguer10. Txt or mguer10. Zip [Etext #2752] MARTIN GUERRE On the 10th of, August 1557, an inauspicious day in the history ofFrance, the roar of cannon was still heard at six in the evening in theplains of St. Quentin; where the French army had just been destroyed bythe united troops of England and Spain, commanded by the famous CaptainEmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. An utterly beaten infantry, theConstable Montmorency and several generals taken prisoner, the Duked'Enghien mortall...y wounded, the flower of the nobility cut down likegrass, --such were the terrible results of a battle which plunged Franceinto mourning, and which would have been a blot on the reign of HenryII, had not the Duke of Guise obtained a brilliant revenge the followingyear. This sentence substituted the gallows for the decapitation decreed bythe first judge, inasmuch as the latter punishment was reserved forcriminals of noble birth, while hanging was inflicted on meaner persons. ALI PACHA Albania was one of the most difficult provinces to manage.
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