On the 5th of September, a state assembly was held at the Louvre.

All the royal family, the princes and great officers of the crown, the presidents of the parliament, fifteen archbishops or bishops, the provost of Paris, the provost of tradesmen, and a hundred burgesses of note attended it.

Thereupon Master Juvenal des Ursins, king's advocate, announced the intention of Charles VI.

in his illness to confer the government upon the queen, set forth the reasons for it, called to mind the able regency of Queen Blanche, mother of St.Louis, and produced royal letters, sealed with the great seal.

Immediately the Duchess of Orleans came forward, knelt at the _dauphin_'s feet, demanding justice for the death of her husband, and begged that she might have a day appointed her for refuting the calumnies with which it had been sought to blacken his memory.