This evening we will deliver the assault against the town, and to-morrow we will give battle." And the next day, January the 5th, the battle did take place, in the plain of Nancy.

The Duke of Burgundy assumed his armor very early in the morning.

When he put on his helmet, the gilt lion, which formed the crest of it, fell off.

"That is a sign from God!" said he; but, nevertheless, he went and drew up his army in line of battle.

The day but one before, Campo-Basso had drawn off his troops to a considerable distance; and he presented himself before Duke Rene, having taken off his red scarf and his cross of St.Andrew, and being quite ready, he said, to give proofs of his zeal on the spot.