JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE 

 PLACES 1 



1537-1569 



THE JOURNEY TO TURIN. 1537 



I WILL here shew my readers the towns and places 

 where I found a way to learn the art of surgery : for 

 the better instruction of the young surgeon. 

 And first, in the year 1536, the great King Francis sent a 

 large army to Turin, to recover the towns and castles that 

 had been taken by the Marquis du Guast, Lieutenant-General 

 of the Emperor. M. the Constable, then Grand Master, was 

 Lieutenant-General of the army, and M. de Montejan was 

 Colonel-General of the infantry, whose surgeon I was at this 

 time. A great part of the army being come to the Pass of 

 Suze, we found the enemy occupying it; and they had made 

 forts and trenches, so that we had to fight to dislodge them 

 and drive them out. And there were many killed and 

 wounded on both sides, but the enemy were forced to give 

 way and retreat into the castle, which was captured, part 

 of it, by Captain Le Rat, who was posted on a little hill with 

 some of his soldiers, whence they fired straight on the 

 enemy. He received an arquebus-shot in his right ankle, and 

 fell to the ground at once, and then said, "Now they have 

 got the Rat." I dressed him, and God healed him. 



We entered pell-mell into the city, and passed over the 

 dead bodies, and some not yet dead, hearing them cry under 

 our horses' feet ; and they made my heart ache to hear them. 

 And truly I repented I had left Paris to see such a pitiful 

 spectacle. Being come into the city, I entered into a stable, 

 thinking to lodge my own and my man's horse, and found 



prcwit translation is taken from Mr. Stephen Paget's " Ambrofs* 

 Pare and His Times " by arrangement with Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



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