The servants of the Duke of Burgundy mentioned to him no more than four hundred.
It was not before the 14th of July that he, with Queen Isabel, came back to the city; and he came with a sincere design, if not of punishing the cut-throats, at least of putting a stop to all massacre and pillage; but there is nothing more difficult than to suppress the consequences of a mischief of which you dare not attack the cause.

One Bertrand, head of one of the companies of butchers, had been elected captain of St.Denis because he had saved the abbey from the rapacity of a noble Burgundian chieftain, Hector de Saveuse.

The lord, to avenge himself, had the butcher assassinated.

The burgesses went to the duke to demand that the assassin should be punished; and the duke, who durst neither assent nor refuse, could only partially cloak his weakness by imputing the crime to some disorderly youngsters whom he enabled to get away.

On the 20th of August an angry mob collected in front of the Chatelet, shouting out that nobody would bring the Armagnacs to justice, and that they were every day being set at liberty on payment of money.