It is safer to cut to the quick, especially in the case of heroes whose actions are all so watched.

M.de Turenne did not feel death: count you that for nothing ?" Turenne was sixty-four; he had become a convert to Catholicism in 1668, seriously and sincerely, as he did everything.

For him Bossuet had written his Exposition of faith.

Heroic souls are rare, and those that are heroic and modest are rarer still: that was the distinctive feature of M.de Turenne.

"When a man boasts that he has never made mistakes in war, he convinces me that he has not been long at it," he would say.