Without the walls of Paris it was really war that was going on between the two princes.

Philip of Navarre, brother of Charles the Bad, went marching with bands of pillagers over Normandy and Anjou, and within a few leagues of Paris, declaring that he had not taken, and did not intend to take, any part in his brother's pacific arrangements, and carrying fire and sword all through the country.

The peasantry from the ravaged districts were overflowing Paris.

Stephen Marcel had no mind to reject the support which many of them brought him; but they had to be fed, and the treasury was empty.

The wreck of the states-general, meeting on the 2d of January, 1358, themselves had recourse to the expedient which they had so often and so violently reproached the king and the dauphin with employing: they notably depreciated the coinage, allotting a fifth of the profit to the dauphin, and retaining the other four fifths for the defence of the kingdom.