Some weeks yet before his death, when he had entered Paris again, the inhabitants, in the midst of their sufferings and under the harsh government of the English, had seen with joy their poor mad king coming back amongst them, and had greeted him with thousand-fold shouts of "Noel!" His body lay in state for three days, with the face uncovered, in a hall of the hostel of St.Paul, and the multitude went thither to pray for him, saying, "Ah! dear prince, never shall we have any so good as thou Wert; never shall we see thee more.

Accursed be thy death! Since thou dost leave us, we shall never have aught but wars and troubles.

As for thee, thou goest to thy rest; as for us, we remain in tribulation and sorrow.

We seem made to fall into the same distress as the children of Israel during the captivity in Babylon." [Illustration: The Body of Charles VI.

lying in State----84] The people's instinct was at the same time right and wrong.