We will make you rich: let us participate in your labour and industry.

Undo not yourselves to serve the ambition of a few men." The townspeople hearing the old warrior discoursing thus earnestly, asked who he was.

When informed that it was La Noue they cheered him vociferously, and applauded his speech with the greatest vehemence.

Yet La Noue was the foremost Huguenot that the sun shone upon, and the Parisians were starving themselves to death out of hatred to heresy.

After the collation the commissioners were permitted to go from the camp in order to consult Mayenne.
Such then was the condition of Paris during that memorable summer of tortures.