At Conde's instance, he detached a body of troops, which he sent, under the orders of Count Fuendalsagna, to join the Duke of Lorraine, who had again approached Paris.

Everywhere the fortune of arms appeared to be against the king.

"This year we lost Barcelona, Catalonia, and Casale, the key of Italy," says Cardinal de Retz.

We saw Brisach in revolt, on the point of falling once more into the hands of the house of Austria.

We saw the flags and standards of Spain fluttering on the Pont Neuf, the yellow scarfs of Lorraine appeared in Paris as freely as the isabels and the blues." Dissension, ambition, and poltroonery were delivering France over to the foreigner.
The evil passions of men, under the control of God, help sometimes to destroy and sometimes to preserve them.