between Armagnac and Burgundian.  A devoted Burgundian, Sire Guy de Bar, was named provost of Paris in the place of Tanneguy Duchatel.  The mason with whom Bernard of Armagnac had taken refuge went and told the new provost that the constable was concealed at his house.  Thither the provost hurried, made the constable mount behind him, and carried him off to prison at the Chatelet, at the same time making honorable exertions to prevent massacre and plunder.

But factions do not so soon give up either their vengeance or their hopes.  On the 11th of June, 1418, hardly twelve days after Paris had fallen into the hands of the Burgundians, a body of sixteen hundred men issued from the Bastille, and rushed into the street St. Antoine, shouting, “Hurrah for the king, the dauphin, and the Count of Armagnac!” They were Tanneguy Duchatel and some of the chiefs of the Armagnacs who were attempting to regain Paris, where they had observed that the Burgundians were not numerous.  Their attempt had no success, and merely gave the Burgundians the opportunity and the signal for a massacre of their enemies.  The little band of Tanneguy Duchatel was instantly repulsed, hemmed in, and forced to re-enter the Bastille with a loss of four hundred men.  Tanneguy saw that he could make no defence there; so he hastily made his way out, taking the dauphin with him to Melun.  The massacre of the Armagnacs had already commenced on the previous evening:  they were harried in the hostelries and houses; they were cut down with axes in the streets.  On the night between the 12th and 13th of June a rumor spread about that there were bands of Armagnacs coming to deliver their friends in prison.  “They are at the St. Germain gate,” said some.  No, it is the St. Marceau gate,” said others.  The mob assembled and made a furious rush upon the prison-gates.  “The city and burgesses will have no peace,” was the general saying, “so long as there is one Armagnac left!  Hurrah for peace!  Hurrah for the Duke of Burgundy!” The provost of Paris, the lord of Isle-Adam, and the principal Burgundian chieftains, galloped up with a thousand horse, and strove to pacify these madmen, numbering, it is said, some forty thousand.  They were received with a stout of, “A plague of your justice and pity!  Accursed be he whosoever shall have pity on these traitors of Armagnacs.  They are English; they are hounds.  They had already made banners for the King of England, and would fain have planted them upon the gates of the city.  They made us work for nothing, and when we asked for our due they said, ’You rascals, haven’t ye a sou to buy a cord and go hang yourselves?  In the devil’s name speak no more of it; it will be no use, whatever you say.’” The provost of Paris durst not oppose such fury as this.  “Do what you please,” said he.  The mob ran to look for the constable Armagnac and the chancellor de Marle in the Palace-tower, in which they had been shut up,