Afin de vaincre surement.
Sobre et discret te montreras,
Buvant peu, parlant rarement;
De ton chef jamais n'agiras
Attendant le commandement;
Violemment rien ne prendras,
Mais en payant exactement.
Age et sexe respecteras,
Etant soldat et non brigand.
Les comites corrigeras,
Et les mouchards chretiennement;
Ne Breton, tu n'oublieras,
Afin d'agir loyalement.
Dans le succes clement seras;
Dans le malheur, ferme et constant.
Chaque jour ton Dieu tu prieras;
Que peux tu sans son bras puissant?"

Such were the first Chouans: they had no organisation until they followed
Larochejaquelin and the Vendean army to Granville, and accompanied them in
their retreat; when their numbers were materially increased and their
character completely changed by the deserters and brigands, who joined and
eventually succeeded the peasantry.

The church of Batz is of cut stone. It has a square tower, surmounted by a
cupola steeple, which with that of Le Croisic serves as a landmark to
vessels having to steer between the two dangerous rocks Le Four, in front
of Le Croisic, and Les Blanches, situated near the mouth of the Loire.

The choir is inclined, like that of St. Pol and others in Brittany. On one
of the bosses in the interior is a grotesque carving of a man torn to
pieces by the seven capital sins. On others are the Santa Veronica, the
Good Shepherd, Ste. Barbara, &c. Near the church are the pretty ruins of
the chapel of Notre Dame-du-Murier.

We drove on to Le Croisic, in Breton, "Little Cross;" so called from the
small chapel of the Crucifix, built to commemorate the baptism by St.
Felix, Bishop of Nantes, in the sixth century, of the Saxon colony who
occupied the peninsula. Le Croisic was one of the first towns in Brittany
which received Christianity, and bears for its arms a cross between four
ermines. Along the road-side are cisterns or wells dug in the sand, and
girls were filling with water the classical stone pitchers they carried
upon their heads--quite an Eastern picture, suggestive of Rebecca and the
damsels of her country. Le Croisic is almost surrounded by the sea, low,
and without shelter, which renders it cold, damp, and exposed to the
winds; turf is almost the only fuel used.

It is much frequented as a watering-place, and has an Etablissement. It is
also a sea-port, with a rocky entrance to the harbour, and the dangerous
rock with its lighthous