Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-12-30

The vidame de Bezers died as he had
lived. He was still governor of Cahors
when Henry the Great attacked it on
the night of the 18th of June, 1880.
Taken by surprise and wounded in the
first confusion of the assault, he still
defended himself and his charge with
desperate courage, fighting from street
to street, and house to house for five
nights and as many days. While he
lived Henry's destiny and the fate of
France trembled in the balance. But
lie fell at length, his brain pierced by
the ball of an arquebuse, and died an
hour before sunset on the 22d of June
The garrison Immediately surrendered.
Marie and were present in this ac-
ton on the side of the king of Navarro,
and at the request of that prince
FASTENED TO pay such honors to the
body of the vidame as were due to ais
Ienown and might serve to evince our
gratitude. A year later his remains
were removed from Cahors, and laid
where they now rest in his own Abbey
Church of Beers, under monument
which very briefly tells of his stormy
small need of a monument whose name
lives in the history of his country, and
whose epiSaph is written in the lives or
men.
NoTE-TThe character and conduct OF
Nfdame de Beers, as they appear in the,
above memoir, find q parallel in an ac-
count given by De Thou of one of the most
remarkable incidents in the massacre of
st, Bartholomew. amid such examples -
he writes, "of the ferocity of the city a
thing happened worthy TO he related and
which may perhaps weigh in some degree
against these atrocities. There was a
deadly hatred, which up to this time tho
Intervention Of their friends and neigh
bors had failed to appease, between two
men-NeZins, the lieutenant of HOnora tuS
of Savoy, Marshal Vilars. man notable
among the nobility of the province fC~ HE
valor, but ohnoxiuu 10 many owint o
his brutal disposition 4. erina natural, and
Regnier, q young man Of like rank and
Vigor, but of mflder character When
Regnier, then. in the middle of that great
uproar, death meeting his eye everywhere,
was making up his mind to the worst. his
door was suddenly burst open and VEINS,
with two other men, stood before him,
sword in hand. Upon this Regnier, as
sured OF death, knelt down and asked
mercy Of Heaven: but Veins, in a harsh
voice, bid him rise from his prayers and
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the street for him. So he led Regnier-un-
certain Tor the time whittier he was being
taken-out of the city and put him on his
honor TO go with him without trying 10
escape. And together, without pausing on
their Journey, the two travelled all the way
10 Guienne. During this time Veins hon
ored Regnier with very little conversation:
out 50 far cared for him that food was
prepared for him at the inns by his serv-
ants; and so they came to Quercy and the
castle of Regnier. There VEINS turned to
him and said: You know how have for
a long time hack sought to avenge myself
on you, and how easily might now have
done it TO the full. had been willing to use
this opportunity. But shame would not
suffer it: and. besides, your courage seemed
worthy to be set against mine on even
terms Take, therefore, the life which you
owe TO my Kindness With much more
which the curious win find in the second
folio) volume OF De Thou.
THE End