François de la Noue
François de la Noue (1531 – August 4, 1591), called Bras-de-Fer (Iron Arm), was one of the
He served in
At the siege of Fontenay (1570) his left arm was shattered by a bullet and later amputated; but a mechanic of La Rochelle made him an artificial iron arm (hence his sobriquet) with a hook for holding his reins. When peace was made in France in the same year, La Noue carried his sword against the Spaniards in the Netherlands, but was taken at the recapture of Mons by the Spanish in 1572.[1]
Permitted to return to France, he was commissioned by
When peace was again concluded La Noue once more went to aid the
It was in captivity that La Noue wrote his celebrated Discours politiques et militaires, a work which was published at
At length, in June 1585, La Noue was exchanged for
Works
He wrote, besides the Discourses,
- Declaration pour prise d'armées et la défeute de Sedan et Jarnets (1588)
- Observations sur l'histoire de Guicciardini, 2 vols, (1592)
- Notes on Plutarch's Lives.
His Correspondence was published in 1854.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911, p. 183.
- ^ Ch. Piot, "Melun (Robert de)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 14 (Brussels, 1897), 336-339.
- ^ Émile de Borchgrave, "Noircarmes (Jean de)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15 (Brussels, 1899), 780-784.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 184.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Noue, François de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 183–184. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- La Vie de François, seigneur de La Noue, by Moyse Amirault (Leiden, 1661)
- Pierre de Brantôme, Vies des Capitaines français
- C. Vincens, François de La Noue, dit Bras de Fer (1875)
- Henri Hauser, François de La Noue (Paris, 1892).