Their different allies in the League were coming up with troops to join them, including even some of those who, after having suffered reverses in Auvergne, had concluded truces with the king.

The forces scattered around Paris amounted, it is said, to fifty thousand men, and occupied Charenton, Conflans, St.Maur, and St.Denis, making ready for a serious attack upon the place.

Louis, notwithstanding his firm persuasion that things always went ill wherever he was not present in person, left Paris for Rouen, to call out and bring up the regulars and reserves of Normandy.

In his absence, interviews and parleys took place between besiegers and besieged.

The former, found partisans amongst the inhabitants of Paris, in the Hotel de Ville itself.