When he handled arms and armies, he showed that he was very conversant with them, as much so as any captain of his day, and he always exposed himself courageously to danger.

In difficulties, he was observed to be full of magnanimity and resource in getting out of them, always showing himself quite free from swagger and parade.

In short, he was a personage worthy to re-establish an enfeebled and a corrupted state.

I was fain to say these few words about him in passing, for, having known him and been much with him, and having profited by his teaching, I should have been wrong if I had not made truthful and honorable mention of him." [_Memoires de La Noue, in the Petitot collection,_ 1st series, t.xxxiv.

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