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Prince Ranuccio, according to his father's express wish, was placed provisionally at the head of the Flemish forces. This was conceded; however, with much heart-burning, and with consequences easily to be imagined. Meantime Caudebec fell at once. Henry did nothing to relieve it, and the place could offer but slight resistance to the force arrayed against it.
Before the end of the year Henry had obtained control of the Seine, both above and below the city, holding Pont de l'Arche on the north where was the last bridge across the river; that of Rouen, built by the English when they governed Normandy, being now in ruins and Caudebec on the south in an iron grasp.
Farnese had finished the work that he had been sent to do, and was anxious, as Henry was aware, to return to the Netherlands. Rouen was relieved, Caudebec had fallen. There was not food or forage enough in the little peninsula to feed both the city and the whole army of the League. Shut up in this narrow area, Alexander must starve or surrender.
Several war-vessels sent by the Hollanders, according to the agreement with Buzanval, cruised in the north of the river below Caudebec, and rendered much service to the king in cutting off supplies from the beleaguered place, while the investing army of Henry, numbering twenty-five thousand foot inclusive of the English contingent, and three thousand Netherlanders and ten thousand cavalry, nearly all French, was fast reducing the place to extremities.
It was now the twenty-sixth of September and nothing had happened. But at three o'clock the bell rang. A boy brought this telegram: "No goods at Batignolles station. Prepare everything for tomorrow night. Arsene." This telegram threw the baron into such a state of excitement that he even considered the advisability of yielding to Lupin's demands. However, he hastened to Caudebec.
He was at Caudebec on a half- year's furlough, and asked the First Consul's permission to be a sentinel at the door of the apartment of the august travelers, which was granted; and after the First Consul and Madame Bonaparte were seated at the table, Roussel was sent for, and invited to breakfast with his former general.
The houses along the quay have a most paintable appearance, their overhanging floors and innumerable windows forming a picturesque background to the fishing-boats. Harfleur, on the same side of the river as Havre, is on the road to Tancarville. We pass through it on our way to Caudebec.
Sunday, 21st August. Dearest Mamma, I am sorry our nice voyage is nearly finished, for we go over to Trouville this evening, and from there by train back to Vinant. The river is not nearly so pretty after you leave Caudebec, but Tancarville is fine, and looks very imposing sitting up so high. The Vicomte has been talking to me all the time, but Jean stays by.
Before the end of the year Henry had obtained control of the, Seine, both above and below the city, holding Pont de l'Arche on the north where was the last bridge across the river; that of Rouen, built by the English when they governed Normandy, being now in ruins and Caudebec on the south in an iron grasp.
"Oh, I knew it at once. It belonged to Master Vatinel, the carter." "And where does he live?" "At Louvetot." Beautrelet consulted his military map. The hamlet of Louvetot lay where the highroad between Yvetot and Caudebec was crossed by a little winding road that ran through the woods to La Mailleraie.
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