Not less than seven thousand of the insurgents had been slain by the four knights and fifty men, for ten had been left behind to guard the gates of the market-place.
History has no record of so vast a slaughter by so small a body of men.
This terrific punishment put a summary end to the Jacquerie.

Already in other parts several bodies had been defeated, and their principal leader, Caillet, with three thousand of his followers, slain near Clermont.

But the defeat at Meaux was the crushing blow which put an end to the insurrection.
On their return to the town the knights executed a number of the burghers who had joined the peasants, and the greater part of the town was burned to the ground as a punishment for having opened the gates to the peasants and united with them.
The knights and ladies then started for Paris.

On nearing the city they found that it was threatened by the forces of the Dauphin.

Marcel had strongly fortified the town, and with his ally, the infamous King of Navarre, bade defiance to the royal power.