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When I had climbed to the top of the bluff I was much disappointed, for I could see but little only the advanced rifle-pits across the river, and Fort Nogent beyond them, not enough, certainly, to repay a non-combatant for taking the risk of being killed.
"I know not, young sir; but I can only say that on the eve of Cadsand, and on the eve of Crecy, and on the eve of Nogent, I dreamed of a red cow; and now the dream has come upon me again, so I am now setting a very keen edge to my blade." "Well said, old war-dog!" cried Aylward. "By my hilt!
Yet I know not what there is of a pity which strikes deep, at the thought of a man, a while since so strong, turning his face to the wall from the things which most occupy men's lives. 'Tis that homely, but honest cure of Nogent he has caricatured so often, who attends him. July 1721. Our incomparable Watteau is no more! Jean-Baptiste returned unexpectedly.
We ran through it, past a turning to Moronvilliers on the left famous name! and within a short distance of Nogent l'Abbesse, the fort which did most to wreck Rheims Cathedral, and so down in a dreary semi-darkness into Rheims itself. Thirty-five years ago I was in Rheims for the first and only time, before this visit. It was in September, not long before the vintage.
That was why he fell back on Troyes, so as directly to oppose the latter movement, "or so as to return and manoeuvre against Blücher and stay his march." Another motive was his expectation of finding at Nogent the 15,000 veterans whom he had ordered Soult to send northwards.
But the burghers acted with him, as they had with his clergy and the knights: they offered him so large a sum of money that "it was enough," says Guibert of Nogent, "to appease the tempest of his words." He accepted the commune, and swore to respect it. The burghers wished to have a higher warranty; so they sent to Paris, to King Louis the Fat, a deputation laden with rich presents.
Through one of these apparently unguarded openings a strong body of uhlan patrols advanced, riding southward until they reached Nogent, south of Paris, and seemingly with the whole rich country of central France laid wide open to a sharp and sudden attack. Among the many strange features of this series of the battles of the Marne this must certainly be reckoned as one.
Another dreadful blow is aimed at Blucher's columns; Marmont attacks them at Vaux-Champs, and the army of Silesia falls back beaten. And now the Emperor hastens towards Nogent, where he has left Bourmont in front of the Austrians. "Too late! too late!" is again the cry, the columns of Oudinot and Victor are already in retreat.
It was accordingly decided that the Marquis d'Ancre, on the part of their Majesties, and M. de Villeroy on that of the ministers, should proceed to Nogent, where the Princes were then residing, and invite them to return to Court, with a full assurance from all parties that they would there occupy the station befitting their exalted rank, and be received with the dignities and honours which were due to them as Princes of the Blood.
There he could laugh and not be ashamed. The forecourt was packed full of priests. All the superiors of the different Archdeaconries Chartres, Châteaudun, Nogent le Rotrou, and Dreux had left there, within the great gate, their following of parish priests and curés, who were pacing round and round the green circus of a grass plot.
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