"Ivry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... truly brave man is not apt to consider the consequences to his own safety, of wearing a dress or carrying an insignia which he would otherwise bear with propriety and with pride. It was an inviting mark which Henri of Navarre offered to the foe at Ivry, in the white plume with which he led on his followers; and Murat, when he made those desperate charges to which reference has before been made during the progress of this narration, must have known ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... as those after wolves, bears, and boars." He never missed a chance of hunting, "even when in face of an enemy. If he knew a stag to be near, he found time to hunt it," and we find in the "Memoirs of Sully " that the King hunted the day after the famous battle of Ivry. ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix |
