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Updated: June 13, 2025
There was no stopping a cavalier in such a chivalrous course as that, and Madame de Longueville would not have been the sister of the victor of Rocroy a heroine worthy of sustaining comparison with those of Spain, who beheld their lovers die at their feet in the tournament had she not been present at the duel between Guise and Coligny.
"Yes," replied the man; "and relays have been ordered to hasten her escape." "What route did she take?" "She goes to Brussels, by the way of Rheims, Rocroy, and Namur." "Here are your four louis d'ors." With these words, the two horsemen galloped away, turning their horses' heads toward the palace of the minister of war.
I to continue my flight in a plain carriage, with two horses and no attendants." "I have promised to submit, and will obey you implicitly," returned Eugene, respectfully. "Since you command me to go, we will part at Rocroy." "Ah!" sighed the countess, "I would we were there, for indeed I am exhausted, and yearn for rest."
We have arrested Monsieur de Beaufort, but he is the least dangerous among them. There is the Prince de Conde " "The hero of Rocroy. Do you think of him?" "Yes, madame, often and often, but pazienza, as we say in Italy; next, after Monsieur de Conde, comes the Duke of Orleans." "What are you saying? The first prince of the blood, the king's uncle!"
All exhausted as he was for the fighting lasted from morning till evening, Condé had still heart and energy to make a last charge for their rescue, and to place them in safety within the city. He felt the old flame of Rocroy and Nordlingen firing his blood, and he fought like the boldest of his dragoons.
General Polignac returned to Europe in 1865, and as he had shown great gallantry and talent for war while serving with me, I hoped that he might come to the front during the struggle with Germany; but he belonged to that race of historic gentry whose ancestors rallied to the white plume of Henry at Ivry, and followed the charge of Condé at Rocroy.
For more than a hundred years the Spaniards were the very masters of the art of war. Their power had begun to decline, but they still retained their military superiority; and from the Battle of Ceresole, won by the Count of Enghien in 1544, down to the memorable victory of Rocroy, gained in 1643 by a hero of the same race and the same name, they had the upper-hand in all pitched engagements.
She undertakes to mislead Condé, to rob France of the conqueror of Rocroy and of Lens, and to give him to Spain. IN the first scenes of the shifting drama, the Court had supported Condé in compassing the destruction of the Frondeurs; and Mazarin, with keen policy, instigated the Prince to every act that could widen the breach between him and the faction.
With his rapier in his hand, his hat lost, his wig awry, and his dignity all thrown to the winds, the old nobleman showed them that day how a soldier of Rocroy could carry himself, and with Du Lhut, Amos, De Catinat and Ephraim Savage, was ever in the forefront of the defence.
Anne had obtained from Condé an order for the seizure and detention of three or four persons whose names were left in blank; and on the authority of his own signature, the hero of Rocroy and the other two princes, were led quietly down a back stair, given over to the custody of a small escort of twenty men under the command of Guitaut and Comminges, and by them conducted during the night to Vincennes.
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