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MONTLUC (or MoNLuc), BLAISE DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTLUC (or See also:MoNLuc), BLAISE DE  LASSARAN-MASSENCOME, SEIGNEUR DE (c . 1502-1577), See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born about 1502, at the See also:family seat near See also:Condom in the See also:modern See also:department of See also:Gers . He was the eldest son, and his family was a See also:good one, but, like most gentlemen of See also:Gascony, he had to See also:trust to his See also:sword . He served first as a private See also:archer and See also:man-at-arms in See also:Italy, with See also:Bayard for his See also:captain, fought all through the See also:wars of See also:Francis I., and was knighted on the See also:field of Cerisoles (1544), to which victory he had brilliantly contributed as adviser to the See also:young See also:duke of See also:Enghien . Having apparently enjoyed no patronage, he was by this See also:time a man of See also:middle See also:age . Thenceforward, however, his merits were recognized . His See also:chief feat was the famous See also:defence of See also:Siena (1555), which he has told so admirably . When the religious wars See also:broke out in France, See also:Montluc, a staunch royalist, held Guyenne for the See also:king . See also:Henry III. made him in 1574 marshal of France, an See also:honour which he had earned by nearly See also:half a See also:century of service and by numerous wounds . He died at Estillac near See also:Agen in 1577 . Montluc's See also:eminence above other soldiers of his See also:day is due to his Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc (See also:Bordeaux, 1592), in which he described his fifty years of service (1521—1574) . This See also:book, the " soldier's See also:Bible " (or " See also:breviary," according to others), as Henry IV. called it, is one of the most admirable of the many admirable books of See also:memoirs produced by the unlearned gentry of France at that time ..

It is said to have been dictated, which may possibly See also:

account in some degree for the singular vivacity and picturesqueness of the See also:style . The Commentaires are to be found conveniently in the collection of See also:Michaud and Poujoulat, but the See also:standard edition is that of the Societe de l'histoire de France, ed. by M. de See also:Ruble (5 vols., 1865-1872) . See See also:Rustow, Militarische Biographien, v. i . (See also:Zurich, 1858) . MONTLUcON, a See also:town of central France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement, and the most important See also:industrial centre in the department of See also:Allier . Pop . (1906), 31,888 . It is situated on the See also:Cher, 5o m . S.W. of See also:Moulins by the See also:Orleans railway . The upper town, on an eminence on the right See also:bank, consists of steep, narrow, winding streets, and preserves several buildings of the 15th and 16th centuries; the See also:lower town, traversed by the Cher, is the seat of the See also:industries, which embrace the manufacture of See also:glass, chemicals, mirrors, sewing-See also:machines, and See also:iron and See also:steel See also:production . The See also:Commentry See also:coal-mines and Neris, a town with thermal springs, are a few See also:miles distant to the See also:south-See also:east . Of the churches, Notre-See also:Dame is of the 15th century, St See also:Pierre partly of the 12th and St See also:Paul modern .

The town-See also:

hall, with a library, occupies the site of an old Ursuline See also:convent, and two other convents are used as See also:college and See also:hospital . Overlooking the town is the See also:castle rebuilt by See also:Louis II., duke of See also:Bourbon, and taken by Henry IV. during the religious wars; it serves as a See also:barracks . Montlucon is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, a chamber of commerce and a lycee . The town, which formed See also:part of the duchy of Bourbon, was taken by the See also:English in 1171, and by See also:Philip See also:Augustus in 1181; the English were beaten under its walls in the 14th century .

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