Part 3 (2/2)

THE JOURNEY TO BOURGES 1562

The King with his caes, till those within the walls should surrender; and they ca worth re coreeuenot, shoot here, shoot here,” having his arm thrown up and his hand spread out; a soldier shot his hand right through with a bullet When he was thus shot, he ca the boy in tears, with his hand all bloody, asked who had wounded hientleht, because he kept calling ”Huguenot, hit here, aiood shot and a good fellow, for most likely if he had chosen to fire at the boy's head, he would have hit it even more easily than his hand I dressed the kitchen boy, as very ill He recovered, but with no power in his hand: and frouenot”: he is still living now

THE JOURNEY TO ROUEN 1562

Now, as for the capture of Rouen, they killed many of our men both before and at the attack: and the very next day after we had entered the town, I trepanned eight or nine of our men, who had been wounded with stones as they were on the breach The air was so nant, that ht the bullets had been poisoned; and those within the town said the like of us; for though they had within the town all that was needful, yet all the sa of Navarre ounded, some days before the attack, with a bullet in the shoulder I visited hieons, Master Gilbert, one of the chief men of Montpellier, and others They could not find the bullet I searched for it very accurately, and found reason to believe it had entered at the top of the arm, by the head of the bone, and had passed into the hollow part of the bone, which hy they could not find it; and most of them said it had entered his body and was lost in it M le Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, who dearly loved the King of Navarre, drew me aside and asked if the wound were reat joints, and especially contused wounds, wereto all those who have written about theht of it, and chiefly Master Gilbert, who told hi would recover; which , and the Queen-mother, and M le Cardinal de Bourbon, his brother, and M le Prince de la Roche- sur-Yon, and M de Guise, and other great persons, after we had dressed the King of Navarre, wished us to hold a consultation in their presence, all the physicians and surgeons together Each of theood hope, they said, that he would recover I persisted always in the contrary M le Prince, who loved ainst the opinion of all the others, and prayed ood ns of recovery, I will change ed what I said, and the prognosis I had , and said always the arrene: which it did, for all the care they could give to it; and he rendered his spirit to God the eighteenth day after his wound

M le Prince, having heard of it, sent to eon, and his physician, one Lefevre, now physician-in-ordinary to the King and Queen-mother, to say he wished to have the bullet, and ere to look for it, to see where it was Then I was very glad, and assured them I should quickly find it; which I did in their presence, with entlemen: it was just in the very middle of the bone M le Prince took and showed it to the King and to the Queen, who all said that nosis had come true

The body was laid to rest at Chateau Gaillard: and I returned to Paris, where I found many patients, who had been wounded on the breach at Rouen, and chiefly Italians, ere very eager I should dress thely Many of them recovered: the rest died Mon petit reat number there was of them

THE BATTLE OF DREUX 1562

The day after the battle of Dreux, the King bade o and dress M le Coh, near the hip-joint, with a pistol-shot: which had sh-bone into many pieces: whereon rief The day after I cao to the camp where the battle had been, to see the dead bodies I saw, for a long league round, the earth all covered: they estimated it at twenty-five thousand men or more; and it was all done in less than two hours I wish, mon petit maistre, for the love I bear you, you had been there, to tell it to your scholars and your children

Nohile I was at Dreux, I visited and dressed a great nu the rest many of the Swiss captains I dressed fourteen all in one room, all wounded with pistol-shots and other diabolical firear dead, I eons caray, Cointeret, Hubert, and others; and I returned to Paris, where I found entlemen who had retreated thither after the battle, to have their wounds dressed; and I was not there without seeing many of them

THE JOURNEY TO HAVRE DE GRACE 1563

And I will not omit to tell of the camp at Havre de Grace When our artillery calish within the walls killed soabions And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing the inside the gabions, which served to fill thelish saw that they could not withstand our attack, because they were hard hit by sickness, and especially by the plague, they surrendered The King gave thelad to be out of this plague-stricken place

The greater part of theland, and they have not got rid of it since Captain Sarlabous, ns of infantry, who had no fear of the plague; and they were very glad to get into the town, hoping to enjoy themselves there, Mon petit maistre, if you had been there, you would have done as they did

THE JOURNEY TO BAYONNE 1564

I ith the King on that journey to Bayonne, ere two years and does I was called in consultation over sundry diseases, with the late M Chapelain, chief physician to the King, and M Castellan, chief physician to the Queen-ery During this journey, I always inquired of the surgeons if they had noted anything rare in their practices, so that I s happened worthy of reentle of the throat He had lately been touched by the deceased King Charles for the king's evil I opened his swellingI left hieon of the town, to finish his cure M de Fontaine, Knight of the Order of the King, had a severe continued pestilent fever, accos in sundry parts of the body He had bleeding at the nose for two days, without ceasing, nor could we staunch it: and after this hae, and by and bye the swellings suppurated, and he was dressed by race of God