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Henri now went among them, and as he did so, Jacques Chapeau proceeded
through the town, imploring all the men who were in it, to go out and
join the rest of the army, as a holy man had been sent direct from Rome
by the Pope, to tell the people of La Vendee what it was their duty to
do.
Henri did not say quite so much as this, but he told the men that a
friend of theirs--a bishop of the Church--one especially appointed by
the King before he died, to provide for the spiritual comfort of his
poor people in the west of France, was now among them, and would soon
address them. He directed them to stay where they were till this man of
God should be among them, and he besought them strictly to follow any
advice which he might give them.
Every one in the town flocked out to the army--men, women and children
were soon in the fields, and the report was spread abroad through them
all, that the mysterious carriage which had rattled through the streets
of Montreuil, had brought to that favoured town a holy bishop, sent
expressly by their father the Pope to give good advice to his dear
children in La Vendee.
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