Nothing presented itself to my eyes but a fearful solitude, an utter poverty, land uncultivated, houses in ruins.

Even the neighbourhood of Paris showed everywhere marks of desolation and conflagration.

The streets are deserted, the roads overgrown with weeds, the whole is a vast solitude." The utter desolation forced Edward to carry with him an immense train of provisions, and thousands of baggage waggons with mills, ovens, forges, and fishing-boats, formed a long train which streamed for six miles behind his army.

After a fruitless attempt upon Reims he forced the Duke of Burgundy to conclude a treaty with him by pushing forward to Tonnerre, and then descending the Seine appeared with his army before Paris.

But the wasted country forbade a siege, and Edward after summoning the town in vain was forced to fall back for subsistence on the Loire.