for the light troops who should come in pursuit of the
retreating army.[1790] It was precisely such an ambuscade that the
Parisians feared; wherefore they permitted the Armagnacs to regain
their camp at La Chapelle-Saint-Denys unmolested.[1791]

[Footnote 1788: Deliberation of the Chapter of Notre Dame, _loc. cit._]

[Footnote 1789: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 245.]

[Footnote 1790: _Le Jouvencel_, vol. i, p. 142.]

[Footnote 1791: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 245, 246.]

If we regard only the military tactics of the day, there is no doubt
that the French had blundered and had lacked energy. But it was not on
military tactics that the greatest reliance had been placed. Those who
conducted the war, the King and his council, certainly expected to
enter Paris that day. But how? As they had entered Chalons, as they
had entered Reims, as they had entered all the King's good towns from
Troyes to Compiegne. King Charles had shown himself determined to
recover his towns by means of the townsfolk; towards Paris he acted as
he had acted towards his other towns.

During the coronation march, he had entered into communication with
the bishops and burgesses of the cities of Champagne; and like
communications he had entered into in Paris.[1792] He had dealings with
the monks and notably with the Carmelites of Melun, whose Prior,
Brother Pierre d'Allee, was working in his interest.[1793] For some
time paid agents had been watching for an opportunity of throwing the
city into disorder and of bringing in the enemy in a moment of panic
and confusion. During the assault they were working for him in the
streets. In the afternoon, on both sides of the bridges, were heard
cries of "Let every man look to his own safety! The enemy has entered!
All is lost!" Such of the citizens as were listening to the sermon
hastened to shut themselves in their houses. And others who were out
of doors sought refuge in the churches. But the tumult was quelled.
Wise men, like the clerk of the Parlement, believed that it was but a
feigned attack, and that Charles of Valois looked to recover the town
not so much by force of arms as by a movement of the populace.[1794]

[Footnote 1792: For the opinions of the townsfolk of Paris, see various
acts of Henry VI of the 18th and 25th of Sept., 1429 (MS. Fontanieu,
115). Sauval, _Antiquites de Paris_, vol. iii, p. 586 and _circ._]

[Footnote 1793: A. Longnon, _Paris pendant la domination anglai