The death of Turenne was equivalent to a defeat.
[Illustration: Death of Turenne----443] The Emperor Napoleon said of Turenne, "He is the only general whom experience ever made more daring." He had been fighting for forty years, and his fame was still increasing, without effort or ostentation on his part.

"M.

de Turenne, from his youth up, possessed all good qualities," wrote Cardinal de Retz, who knew him well, "and the great he acquired full early.

He lacked none but those that he did not think about.

He possessed nearly all virtues as it were by nature; he never possessed the glitter of any.