But the gentry sent to the siege of Montlhery did not take the place; they accused their leaders of having betrayed them, and returned to be a scourge to the neighborhood of Paris, everywhere saying that the Duke of Burgundy was the most irresolute man in the kingdom, and that if there were no nobles the war would be ended in a couple of months.

Duke John set about negotiating with the _dauphin_ and getting him back to Paris.

The _dauphin_ replied that he was quite ready to obey and serve his mother as a good son should, but that it would be more than he could stomach to go back to a city where so many crimes and so much tyranny had but lately been practised.

Terms of reconciliation were drawn up and signed on the 16th of September, 1418, at St.Maur, by the queen, the Duke of Burgundy, and the pope's legates; but the _dauphin_ refused to ratify them.

The unpunished and long-continued massacres in Paris had redoubled his distrust towards the Duke of Burgundy; he had, moreover, just assumed the title of regent of the kingdom; and he had established at Poitiers a parliament, of which Juvenal des Ursins was a member.