The duke was engaged with the king's light horse; he had just received two bullets in his mouth.

His horse, "a small barb, extremely swift," came down with him and he fell wounded in seventeen places, alone, without a single squire to help him.

A sergeant of a company of the guards saw him fall, and carried him into the road; some soldiers who were present burst out crying; they seemed to be lamenting their general's rather than their prisoner's misfortune.

Montmorency alone remained as if insensible to the blows of adversity, and testified by the grandeur of his courage that in him it had its seat in a place higher than the heart." [_Journal du Duc de Montmorency (Archives curieuses de l'Histoire de France),_ t.

iv.] [Illustration: Henry, Duke of Montmorency, at Castelnaudary----199] Whilst the army of the Duke of Orleans was retiring, carrying off their dead, nearly all of the highest rank, the king's men were bearing away Montnmorency, mortally wounded, to Castelnaudary.