Brisac

Brisac and picked up the reins of authority which he had joyfully dropped four years previously.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

On Christmas eve, the traveller made a formal entry into Brisac, where

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

Erlach, Governor of Brisac, had with him 1,000 or 1,200 men, who were all he had been able to seduce; that my dear friend and kinsman, the Vicomte de Lamet, was marching directly to our assistance with 2,000 horse; and that M. de Turenne was to follow on such a day with the larger part of the army.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The citizens of Brisac offered homage on their knees and had their hopes raised high by their suzerain's pleasant greeting, but they failed to obtain the hoped for assurance that the treaty of St. Omer should be observed in all respects.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

From there I doubted not that she designed to surprise the city, which seemed really astonished at the King's departure, and I found the hottest members of the Parliament in great consternation, and the more so because news arrived at the same time that General Erlac -- [He was Governor of Brisac, and commanded the forces of the Duke of Weimar after the Duke's death] -- had passed the

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

_ Ah, my poor Silence! thou hast watched and fretted for me preciously, I'll warrant: but the road from Brisac is long, and this rough night half crippled me.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

Strasburg, Brisac, and Alsatia, shall be restored to the Emperor and

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Brisac on the Saskatchewan, with a keg of good-liquor on the table and my hearty voyaguers shouting their chansons outside, my clerks and traders making merry within.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

New Brisac shall be demolished, and all the fortifications from Basle to

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Brisac was in his hands already, and her fortifications held by mercenaries, but an order to the citizens to work, one and all, upon the defences, produced a sudden disturbance with very serious results.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam