The Spaniards, enhardis by the death of Richelieu, had taken again the offensive and had gone on Rocroi, but they found Condé there.

Their chiefs were tried out captains, but Condé thwarted all their calculations by a turning movement of an extraordinary audacity.

After having broken the left of the enemies, it crossed it with its cavalry, and passing behind their center, it attacked suddenly by behind their victorious line: their victory was changed into disaster, and the half as of their remained lying on the battle field.

It was Condé who stopped carnage, and, like known as Bossuet, "joined to the pleasure of overcoming that to forgive" (May 1643).

The Germans were cut off, close to Freiburg, from heights which seemed inaccessible, but the French had as chiefs Turenne and Condé.

Cop, descended from horse, put himself at the column heading of attack, and climbed the cuttings off under a terrible fire.

The Germans beat a retreat.

The foreign war and the heavy taxes had plunged the people in most dreadful misery, but holy Vincent of Paul traversed France, preaching charity, and when it had joined together alms, it collected the found children, the old men and the patients, that the "Sisters of St-Vincent-of-Paul looked after".