Be assured that I shall not conceal from him the service you have done." The reduction of Thionville was accomplished on that very day, June 22, 1558.

That of Arlon, a rich town in the neighborhood, followed very closely.

Guise, thoroughly worn out, had ordered the approaches to be made next morning at daybreak, requesting that he might be left to sleep until he awoke of himself; when he did awake, he inquired whether the artillery had yet opened fire; he was told that Montluc had surprised the place during the night.

"That is making the pace very fast," said he, as he made the sign of the cross; but he did not care to complain about it.

Under the impulse communicated by him the fortunes of France were reviving everywhere.