arlanzen

Updated: May 27, 2025

"A sad sight," say the memoirs of Count Miot de Melito, who accompanied King Joseph as he entered the town; "the houses nearly all deserted and pillaged; the furniture, smashed in pieces, scattered in the mud of the streets; one quarter, on the other side of the Arlanzen, on fire; the soldiers madly forcing in doors and windows, breaking everything that came in their way, using little and destroying much; the churches stripped; the streets crowded with the dead and dying in a word, all the horrors of an assault, although the town had offered no defence!"

M. (François) Guizot - World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France