During this period it was besieged fifty-three times, but only one of these sieges was successful.

The French and Venetians took it, but not without a very severe contest.
Paris has often owed its safety to its walls.

In 885 the Normans besieged it for two years without effect.

In 1358 the Dauphin besieged it in vain.

In 1359 Edward, king of England, encamped at Montrouge, devastated the country to its walls, but recoiled from before it, and retired to Chartres.