plete one. And this all knew so well that it was a double victory
for the court, a victory at home and abroad; so that even when the young
king learned the news he exclaimed, "Ah, gentlemen of the parliament, we
shall see what you will say now!" Upon which the queen had pressed the
royal child to her heart, whose haughty and unruly sentiments were in
such harmony with her own. A council was called on the same evening, but
nothing transpired of what had been decided on. It was only known that
on the following Sunday a Te Deum would be sung at Notre Dame in honor
of the victory of Lens.

The following Sunday, then, the Parisians arose with joy; at that period
a Te Deum was a grand affair; this kind of ceremony had not then been
abused and it produced a great effect. The shops were deserted, houses
closed; every one wished to see the young king with his mother, and the
famous Cardinal Mazarin whom they hated so much that no one wished to be
deprived of his presence. Moreover, great liberty prevailed throughout
the immense crowd; every opinion was openly expressed and chorused, so
to speak, of coming insurrection, as the thousand bells of all the Paris
churches rang out the Te Deum. The police belonging to the city being
formed by the city itself, nothing threatening presented itself to
disturb this concert of universal hatred or freeze the frequent scoffs
of slanderous lips.

Nevertheless, at eight o'clock in the morning the regiment of the
queen's guards, commanded by Guitant, under whom was his nephew
Comminges, marched publicly, preceded by drums and trumpets, filing
off from the Palais Royal as far as Notre Dame, a manoeuvre which the
Parisians witnessed tranquilly, delighted as they were with military
music and brilliant uniforms.

Friquet had put on his Sunday clothes, under the pretext of having a
swollen face which he had managed to simulate by introducing a handful
of cherry kernels into one side of his mouth, and had procured a whole
holiday from Bazin. On leaving Bazin, Friquet started off to the Palais
Royal, where he arrived at the moment of the turning out of the regiment
of guards; and as he had only gone there for the enjoyment of seeing it
and hearing the music, he took his place at their head, beating the drum
on two pieces of slate and passing from that exercise to that of the
trumpet, which he counterfeited quite naturally with his mouth in a
manner which had more than once called forth the praises of