The battle was bloody and terrible, man to man, and only a few horsemen escaped alive.

Seeing that their colonel was surrounded, these men, who were at some distance, were unwilling to perish uselessly in attempting to rescue him.

They heard his cry: "Your colonel! to me! a colonel of the Empire!" but they rejoined the regiment.

Philippe met with a horrible death, for the Arabs, after hacking him to pieces with their scimitars, cut off his head.
Joseph, who was married about this time, through the good offices of the Comte de Serizy, to the daughter of a millionaire farmer, inherited his brother's house in Paris and the estate of Brambourg, in consequence of the entail, which Philippe, had he foreseen this result, would certainly have broken.

The chief pleasure the painter derived from his inheritance was in the fine collection of paintings from Issoudun.