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I deplore the unhappy circumstances which obliged you to treat with him; but I did not feel the slightest uneasiness; the heart of my faithful Bretons, and yours in particular, are too well known to me. To-day you are free, you are near my brother, all my hopes revive. I need not say more to such a Frenchman as you.
Early in 1514 the death of Anne of Brittany, his spouse, a lady of high ambitions, strong artistic tastes, and humane feelings towards her Bretons, but a bad Queen for France, cleared the way for changes.
It has been crowded with sailors and soldiers at every service, for Bretons are among the most religious of all peoples of France. Abbe Marcade, the cure of Le Bourget, has had magnificent congregations. On the Feast of the Assumption the Abbe decided to hold Mass in the open air. An altar was accordingly set up in a large field beside a haystack. Thirty-five hundred soldiers attended.
This labor of the king had no success; on the whole the war prosecuted by Charles V. between Edward III.'s death and his own had no result of importance; the attempt, by law and arms, which he made in 1378, to make Brittany his own and reunite it to the crown, completely failed, thanks to the passion with which the Bretons, nobles, burgesses, and peasants, were attached to their country's independence.
"Well, we behaved like Bretons, and fought before explaining." The other men were stupefied on recognizing the little company. "Who the devil would have known them in those goatskins?" cried Beau-Pied, dismally. "It is a misfortune," said Gudin, "but we are all innocent if you were not informed of the sortie. What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Wouldn't you yourself dance a reed if it would restore your order under its new name of Fathers of the Faith? Don't you know that Bretons come away from the mass and go to dancing?
'We will breakfast together, said the gray-haired conductor of the diligence to me; 'and you will afterwards have time to look round before we start home. Although pure Celts, the Morvandiaux have not the proud reserve and, perhaps, distrust of strangers found among the Bretons. I have driven for miles across country alone with a Breton peasant, and he would never once open his lips.
The Bretons, at this rest, were twenty-five against thirty. The battle had lasted up to exhaustion without loss by the English! Without Montauban the battle would have been terminated by complete and mutual exhaustion and without further losses. For the greater the fatigue, the less strength remained for piercing the armor.
"'No, Admiral, it's too late, said I. 'If that had come first, and from yourself, all well; but it looks like a bargain now, and I 'll not have promotion that way. "'Mort du diable! said he, stamping with passion. 'But they 're all the same; these Bretons are as brutal in their obstinacy as their own cattle.
The King of Scotland was in treaty with France. Warring parties in Ireland claimed Henry's interference. England was uneasy and discontented. Louis of France was allied with all Henry's enemies Gascons, Bretons, Welsh and Scotch; he aided the Count of Flanders and the Count of Boulogne in preparing a fleet of six hundred ships to attack the southern coast of England.
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