working-corps

Updated: June 27, 2025

Money was wanting to pay the working-corps; and he himself advanced the necessary sum. On arriving at Metz on the 17th of August, 1552, he found there only twelve companies of infantry, new levies; and every evening he drilled them himself in front of his quarters.

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4