"Who goes there ?" demanded some burghers who had the guard of it.

"Some of the constable's people." He himself came up on his big charger, with satisfaction and courtesy in his mien.

Some little time was required for opening the gate; a long ladder was let down; and Marshal Isle-Adam was the first to mount, and planted on the wall the standard of France.

The fastenings of the drawbridge were burst, and when it was let down, the constable made his entry on horseback, riding calmly down St.Jacques Street, in the midst of a joyous and comforted crowd.

"My good friends," he said to them, "the good King Charles, and I on his behalf, do thank you a hundred thousand times for yielding up to him so quietly the chief city of his kingdom.