If there be amongst you any, of whatsoever condition he may be, who hath offended against my lord 'the king, all is forgiven, in the case both of the absent and the present." [Illustration: The Constable Made his Entry on Horseback----150] Then he caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet throughout the streets that none of his people should be so bold, on pain of hanging, as to take up quarters in the house of any burgher against his will, or to use any reproach whatever, or do the least displeasure to any.

At sight of the public joy, the English had retired to the Bastille, where the constable was disposed to besiege them.

"My lord," said the burghers to him, "they will surrender; do not reject their offer; it is so far a fine thing enough to have thus recovered Paris; often, on the contrary, many constables and many marshals have been driven out of it.

Take contentedly what God hath granted you." The burghers' prediction was not unverified.

The English sallied out of the Bastille by the gate which opened on the fields, and went and took boat in the rear of the Louvre.
Next day abundance of provisions arrived in Paris; and the gates were opened to the country folks.