Marcel, under pretext of defence against the besiegers, admitted into Paris a pretty large number of English in the pay of the King of Navarre.

Before long, quarrels arose between the Parisians and these unpopular foreigners; on the 21st of July, 1358, during one of these quarrels, twenty-four English were massacred by the people; and four hundred others, it is said, were in danger of undergoing the same fate, when Marcel came up and succeeded in saving their lives by having them imprisoned in the Louvre.

The quarrel grew hotter and spread farther.

The people of Paris went and attacked other mercenaries of the King of Navarre, chiefly English, who were occupying St.Denis and St.Cloud.

The Parisians were beaten; and the King of Navarre withdrew to St.Denis.