an old man, Lavergne de Tressan by name, who, with twenty-five young men, his sons, grandsons, and nephews, fought desperately until he and fifteen of the heroic band were killed. Condé’s body was treated with the utmost contumely. “We found him,” says the biographer of the Duke of Montpensier, “lying across an ass, and the Baron de Magnac asked me if I should know him again? But as he had one eye beaten out of his head, and was otherwise much disfigured, I knew not what to answer. The corpse was brought in before all the princes and lords, who ordered the face to be washed, and recognized him perfectly. They then put him into a sheet, and he was carried before a man on horseback to the castle of Jarnac, where the king’s brother went to lodge.” Thence the remains of the ill-fated prince were removed to the church, and afterward given up to his friends. La Noue, who knew Condé well, thus writes his epitaph: “In boldness or courtesy no man of his time excelled him. Of speech he was eloquent, rather by nature than by art. He was liberal and affable unto all men, and withal an excellent captain, although he loved peace. He bare himself better in adversity than in prosperity.” In 1818, a monument was raised to his memory on the field of Jarnac, with the inscription: HIC NEFANDA NECE OCCUBUIT ANNO MDLXIX ÆTATIS XXXIX LUDOVICUS BORBONIUS CONDÆUS, QUI IN OMNIBUS BELLI PACISQUE ARTIBUS NULLI SECUNDUS; VIRTUTE, INGENIO, SOLERTIA NATALIUM SPLENDOREM ÆQUAVIT; VIR MELIORI EXITU DIGNUS.