he ordered M. de Foix, lieutenant of the dragoons of Fimarqon, to join M.
de La Jonquiere at Sainte-Chatte with a hundred soldiers of his regiment,
and to remain with him if he were wanted; if not, to return the same
night.

M. de Foix gave the necessary orders, chose a hundred of his bravest men,
put himself at their head, and joined M. de La Jonquiere, showing him his
orders; but the latter, confiding in the courage of his soldiers and
unwilling to share with anyone the glory of a victory of which he felt
assured, not only sent away M. de Foix, but begged him to go back to
Uzes, declaring to him that he had enough troops to fight and conquer all
the Camisards whom he might encounter; consequently the hundred dragoons
whom the lieutenant had brought with him were quite useless at
Sainte-Chatte, while on the contrary they might be very necessary
somewhere else. M. de Foix did not consider that it was his duty to
insist on remaining under these circumstances, and returned to Uzes,
while M. de La Jonquiere continued his route in order to pass the night
at Moussac. Cavalier left the town by one gate just as M. de La
Jonquiere entered at the other. The wishes of the young Catholic
commander were thus in a fair way to be fulfilled, for in all probability
he would come up with his enemy the next day.

As the village was inhabited for the most part by new converts, the night
instead of being spent in repose was devoted to pillage.

The next day the Catholic troops reached Moussac, which they found
deserted, so they went on to Lascours-de-Gravier, a little village
belonging to the barony of Boucairan, which M. de La Jonquiere gave up to
pillage, and where he had four Protestants shot--a man, a woman, and two
young girls. He then resumed his route. As it had rained, he soon came