Reformers found dead on the field of battle,
and enclosing them in a wicker basket, sent them to M. Just de Baville.

The Reformers soon recovered from this defeat and death, joined all their
forces into one body, and placed Roland at their head in the place of
Laporte. Roland chose a young man called Couderc de Mazel-Rozade, who
had assumed the name of Lafleur, as his lieutenant, and the rebel forces
were not only quickly reorganised, but made complete by the addition of a
hundred men raised by the new lieutenant, and soon gave a sign that they
were again on the war-path by burning down the churches of Bousquet,
Cassagnas, and Prunet.

Then first it was that the consuls of Mende began to realise that it was
no longer an insurrection they had on hand but a war, and Mende being the
capital of Gevaudan and liable to be attacked at any moment, they set
themselves to bring into repair their counterscarps, ravelins, bastions,
gates, portcullises, moats, walls, turrets, ramparts, parapets,
watchtowers, and the gear of their cannon, and having laid in a stock of
firearms, powder and ball, they formed eight companies each fifty strong,
composed of townsmen, and a further band of one hundred and fifty
peasants drawn from the neighbouring country. Lastly, the States of the
province sent an envoy to the king, praying him graciously to take
measures to check the plague of heresy which was spreading from day to
day. The king at once sent M. Julien in answer to the petition. Thus it
was no longer simple governors of towns nor even chiefs of provinces who
were engaged in the struggle; royalty itself had come to the rescue.

M. de Julien, born a Protestant, was a, member of the nobility of Orange,
and in his youth had served against France and borne arms in England and
Ireland when William of Orange succeeded James II as King of England,
Julien was one of his pages, and received as a reward for his fidelity in
the famous campaign of 1688 the command of a regiment which was sent to
the aid of the Duke of Savoy, who had begged both England and Holland to
help him. He bore himself so gallantly that it was in great part due to
him that the French were forced to raise the siege of Cony.

Whether it was that he expected too much from this success, or that the
Duke of Savoy did not recognise his services at their worth, he withdrew
to Geneva, where Louis XIV hearing of his discontent, caused overtures to
be made to him with a view to dr