"My son," said Marshal de Biron to the young count of Auvergne [natural son of Charles IX.

and Mary Touchet], "charge: now is the time." The young prince, without his hat, and his horsemen charged so vigorously that they put the Leaguers to the rout, killed three hundred of them, and returned quietly within their lines, by Biron's orders, without being disturbed in their retreat.
These partial and irregular encounters began again on the 18th and 19th of September, with the same result.

The Duke of Mayenne was nettled and humiliated; he had his prestige to recover.

He decided to concentrate all his forces right on the king's intrenchments, and attack them in front with his whole army.

The 20th of September passed without a single skirmish.