They galloped up the streets, shouting out 'France, France!' and advanced to where Colonna was at dinner: a sharp conflict now took place,—but the lord de la Palisse and the others arrived, who soon ended it, by making Colonna prisoner, and slaying great numbers of his men. All his baggage was pillaged, and very many fine horses gained that were in the stables of the town. Prospero Colonna was carried, with the other prisoners, to the king of France, and thence sent into confinement at the castle of Montagu, belonging to the lord de la Palisse.
FOOTNOTES:
[55] Romorantin,—15 leagues from Amboise, 11 from Blois.
[56] Guillestre,—near Mont-Dauphin, in Dauphiny.
[57] St Paul,—a village in Dauphiny.
[58] Villa-franca,—16 miles SSW. of Turin.
THE KING OF FRANCE PURSUES THE SWISS WITH HIS WHOLE ARMY.—THE TOWN AND CASTLE OF NOVARA SURRENDER TO THE KING.