26 AMBROISE PARE 



de la Roche-sur-Yon sent me a cask of wine, bigger than a 

 pipe of Anjou, to my lodging, and told me when it was 

 drunk, he would send me another; that was how he treated 

 me, most generously. 



After this, M. de Guise gave me a list of certain captains 

 and seigneurs, and bade me tell them what the King had 

 charged me to say; which I did, and this was to commend 

 him to them, and give them his thanks for the duty they 

 had done and were doing in holding his town of Metz, and 

 that he would remember it. I was more than eight days 

 acquitting myself of this charge, because they were many. 

 First, to all the princes ; then to others, as the Duke Horace, 

 the Count de Martigues, and his brother M. de Bauge, the 

 Seigneurs de Montmorency and d'Anville, now Marshal of 

 France, M. de la Chapelle aux Ursins, Bonnivet, Carouge, 

 now .Governor of Rouen, the Vidasme de Chartres, the Count 

 de Lude, M. de Biron, now Marshal of France, M. de Ran- 

 dan, la Rochefoucaut, Bordaille, d' Estres the younger, M. 

 de Saint Jehan en Dauphine, and many others whom it 

 would take too long to name ; and also to many captains, who 

 had all done their duty well for the defence of their lives and 

 of the town. Afterward I asked M. de Guise what it pleased 

 him I should do with the drugs I had brought with me; he 

 bade me distribute them to the surgeons and apothecaries, 

 and principally to the poor wounded soldiers, who were in 

 great numbers in the Hospital. Which I did, and can truly 

 say I could not so much as go and see all the wounded, who 

 kept sending for me to visit and dress them. 



All the seigneurs within the town asked me to give special 

 care, above all the rest, to M. de Pienne, who had been 

 wounded, while on the breach, by a stone shot from a cannon, 

 on the temple, with fracture and depression of the bone. 

 They told me that so soon as he received the blow, he fell 

 to the ground as dead, and cast forth blood by the mouth, 

 nose, and ears, with great vomiting, and was fourteen days 

 without being able to speak or reason; also he had tremors 

 of a spasmodic nature, and all his face was swelled and livid. 

 He was trepanned at the side of the temporal muscle, over 

 the frontal bone. I dressed him, with other surgeons, and 

 God healed him; and to-day he is still living, thank God. 



