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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XLIV
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The inhabitants, astounded, and finding themselves without troops or hope of succor, surrendered on Shrove Tuesday, February 14.

The king at the same time marched to Gray.

The governor made some show of defending himself, but the Marquis of Yenne, governor-general under Castel-Rodriguo, who belongs to the district and has all his property there, came and surrendered to the king, and then, having gone to Gray, persuaded the governor to surrender.

Accordingly, the king entered it on Sunday, February 19, and had a Te Deum sung there, having at his right the governor-general, and at his left the special governor of the town; and, the same day, he set out on his return.

And so, within twenty-two days of the month of February, he had set out from St.Germain, been in Franche-Comte, taken it entirely, and returned to St.Germain.


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