Michel de Montaigne,
The Essays of Montaigne — Chapter XLV. Of the battle of Dreux…
(1877)
“ Constable, who was general of the army, was racked through and through with the enemy's artillery, his battalion routed, and himself taken prisoner, is not to be excused; and that he had much better have run the hazard of charging the enemy in flank, than staying for the advantage of falling in upon the rear, to suffer so great and so important a loss. ”
