Then, like Caesar, covering up his face, he awaited death the poor soul knew only too well the perfidious character of the Duke of Anjou, the hatred with which he was hunting him down, and the sanguinary orders he would give.

The guards had gone by when their captain, Montesquion, learned the name of this prisoner.

'Slay, slay, mordioux!' he shouted; then suddenly wheeling his horse round, he returns at a gallop, and with a pistol-shot, fired from behind, shatters the hero's skull." [_Histoire des Princes de Conde,_ by M.le Duc d'Aumale, t.ii.

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65-72.] The death of Conde gave to the battle of Jarnac an importance not its own.