[A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]@TWC D-Link bookA Popular History of France From The Earliest Times CHAPTER XXIII 107/141
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.
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