I have already said that after “from” the Metz, Emperor Charles V retired to Thionville, about 30 kilometers at present on the French A31, to see if he would recover from the matter, which was difficult for him. Surely, what he did not expect was the resistance of the hosts led by the Duke of Guise, who beat copper to withstand the imperial onslaught, which hit hard against its walls and fortifications. Which would be more or less like when, on one occasion, a Taliban militiaman was asked about the bombing of the Americans against their bases, rather than the bombing of the Russians during the invasion of Afghanistan. That those were scary, replied the colleague.
Well, what about that on January 12, 1553, the Emperor Charles V, being as he was at that time in Thionville, as I say, wrote to his brother Ferdinand to tell him that the Metz, badly between between. In other words, there was a better chance that The Beatles would get back together than he was to recover that city; when, to add insult to injury — those of the emperor. Fifteen days later he left for Luxembourg, where he had to stay for a few days because he was not too Catholic. He gave him a miaja de apechusque – the Frenchman, that is, Henry II, was grilling him in Hesdin, near the Pas de Calais, more than 400 kilometers away. Months later, Carlos V would leave that city like a solar, abandoning all attempts to recover Metz.
