Note 177 — Chapter XXIV
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Louis XIII., in a letter to Noailles, bears testimony to Bassompierre’s services in this affair: “In this defeat and action we may recognise, as I have told you, the Providence of God, Who has so fortified the courage of my men that they have performed wonders, and notably the Sr. de Bassompierre, the colonel, and the Swiss and the Regiment of Normandy, who have boldly sustained the charge.”