The Life And Times of Francis the First King of France volume 1
The Life And Times of Francis the First King of France volume 1
James Bacon
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If the wiser advice of Bourbon, la Pa- lice^ and la Tremoille had been followed, this result must inevitably have happened ; but the doubts which had arisen respecting the numbers of the count's detachment^ and the pernicious advice of the marechal de Chatillon^ prevailed to deprive Francis of the signal advantage which he might easily have gained, {a) It was upon (a) Fortune never favoured him in a similar manner during his whole subsequent life. "II semble, " says Me- zeray, " qu'en depit qu'...il ne I'avoit pas embrassee a Theure qu'elle lui tendoit les bras, elle eut jure de le fuir toujours, 326 THE LIFE AND TIMES CHAP, ^i^jg occasion, too, that the kiiiof committed a '. — fault, and an injustice, the consequences of which The king he had occasion bitterly to repent. De Bour- depnves, . , . . Bourbon of bon claimcd, in riiirht of his office of constable the coni- mandofthe of Praucc^ to lead the vanguard in crossing the vanguar . G^j^^j j^, ^^^^ ^j^^ king, whom liis mother had influenced against that nobleman, chose to con- fer this distinction, an empty one perhaps^ but still one in which the feelings^ if not the honour- of one of his most valuable adherents was in- volved, on the duke d'Alencon, and thus laid the ground for that dislike which ensued on the part of the constable, and which was afterwards the cause of reducing Francis to a disgraceful captivity, and of putting his kingdom in the most imminent peril.
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