Parliament and all the municipal authorities took part.  Brissac had agreed with his brother-in-law D’Epinay that he would let the king in on the 22d of March, and he had arranged, in concert with the provost of tradesmen, two sheriffs, and several district captains, the course of procedure.  On the 21st of March, in the evening, some Leaguers paid him a visit, and spoke to him warmly about the rumors current on the subject in the city, calling upon him to look to it.  “I have received the same notice,” said Brissac, coolly; “and I have given all the necessary orders.  Leave me to act, and keep you quiet, so as not to wake up those who will have to be secured.  To-morrow morning you will see a fine to-do and the policists much surprised.”  During all the first part of the night between the 21st and 22d of March, Brissac went his rounds of the city and the guards he had posted, “with an appearance of great care and solicitude.”  He had some trouble to get rid of certain Spanish officers, “whom the Duke of Feria had sent him to keep him company in his rounds, with orders to throw themselves upon him and kill him at the first suspicious movement; but they saw nothing to confirm their suspicions, and at two A. M., Brissac brought them back much fatigued to the duke’s, where he left them.”  Henry IV., having started on the 21st of March from Senlis, where he had mustered his troops, and arrived about midnight at St. Denis, immediately began his march to Paris.  The night was dark and stormy; thunder rumbled; rain fell heavily; the king was a little behind time.  At three A. M.. the policists inside Paris had taken arms and repaired to the posts that had been assigned to them.  Brissac had placed a guard close to the quarters of the Spanish ambassador, and ordered the men to fire on any who attempted to leave.  He had then gone in person, with L’Huillier, the provost of tradesmen, to the New Gate, which he had caused to be unlocked and guarded.  Sheriff Langlois had done the same at the gate of St. Denis.  On the 22d of March, at four A. M., the king had not yet appeared before the ramparts, nor any one for him.  Langlois issued from the gate, went some little distance to look out, and came in again, more and more impatient.  At last, between four and five o’clock, a detachment of the royal troops, commanded by Vitry, appeared before the gate of St. Denis, which was instantly opened.  Brissac’s brother-in-law, St. Luc, arrived about the same time at the New Gate, with a considerable force.  The king’s troops entered Paris.  They occupied the different districts, and met with no show of resistance but at the quay of L’Ecole, where an outpost of lanzknechts tried to stop them; but they were cut in pieces or hurled into the river.  Between five and six o’clock Henry IV., at the head of the last division, crossed the drawbridge of the New Gate.  Brissac, Provost L’Huillier, the sheriffs, and several companies of burgesses advanced to meet him.  The king embraced Brissac, throwing