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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXXV
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Henry, having received good information that he would be attacked the next day, did not go to bed.

The night was very dark.

He thought he saw a long way off in the valley a long line of lighted matches; but there was profound silence; and the king and his officers puzzled themselves to decide if they were men or glow-worms.

On the 21st, at five A.M., the king gave orders for every one to be ready and at his post.

He himself repaired to the battle-field.


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