Note 100 — Chapter XVIII · THE SUPREMACY OF MAZARIN

[Some historians refuse to credit Condé with these words. Indeed, Madame de Motteville reports a much less stirring harangue: “My friends, have good courage; we must of necessity fight to-day. It will be useless to back out. For I promise you that all the brave and the cowardly will fight; the ones of good will, the others through compulsion!” “This was perhaps,” adds Duruy,h “the only kind of language to impress the soldiers at that time.”]