While the Orleanists were gathering their adherents to drive him out, John was intrenching himself in Paris.

Like many another villain, this Duke of Burgundy posed as the friend of the people.

He could doff his cap and speak smilingly to starving men.

He knew how to work upon their passions, and to please by torturing and executing those they believed had wronged them.

He told them how he pitied them for the extortions of the Duke of Orleans and Queen Isabella, kindly giving them pikes to defend themselves, and iron chains to barricade their streets, if they should be needed.