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.