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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXII
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They buried him in the midst of weeping, for he was wise and good." "At the news of what had thus happened at Longueil the English were very disconsolate, saying that it was a shame that so many and such brave warriors should have been slain by such rustics.

Next day they came together again from all their camps in the neighborhood, and went and made a vigorous attack at Longueil on our folks, who no longer feared them hardly at all, and went out of their walls to fight them.

In the first rank was Big Ferre, of whom the English had heard so much talk.
When they saw him, and when they felt the weight of his axe and his arm, many of those who had come to this fight would have been right glad not to be there.

Many fled or were grievously wounded or slain.

Some of the English nobles were taken.


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