Philip had thought differently about it instead of hurling his army on Paris, he had moved it back to Saint-Quentin, and kept it for the reduction of places in the neighborhood.

"The Spaniards," says Rabutin, "might have accomplished our total extermination, and taken from us all hope of setting ourselves up again.
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But the Supreme Ruler, the God of victories, pulled them up quite short." An unlooked-for personage, Queen Catherine de' Medici, then for the first time entered actively upon the scene.