"Who are you ?" asked the archbishop who officiated.

"The king." "What want you ?" "To be received into the bosom of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church." "Do you desire it ?" "Yes, I will and desire it." At these words the king knelt and made the stipulated profession of faith.

The archbishop gave him absolution together with benediction; and, conducted by all the clergy to the choir of the church, he there, upon the gospels, repeated his oath, made his confession, heard mass, and was fully reconciled with the church.

The inhabitants of Paris, dispensing with the passports which were refused them by Mayenne, had flocked in masses to St.Denis and been present at the ceremony.

The vaulted roof of the church resounded with their shouts of Hurrah for the king! There was the same welcome on the part of the dwellers in the country when Henry repaired to the valley of Montmorency and to Montmartre to perform his devotions there.