Leave me to act, and keep you quiet, so as not to wake up those who will have to be secured.

To-morrow morning you will see a fine to-do and the policists much surprised." During all the first part of the night between the 21st and 22d of March, Brissac went his rounds of the city and the guards he had posted, "with an appearance of great care and solicitude." He had some trouble to get rid of certain Spanish officers, "whom the Duke of Feria had sent him to keep him company in his rounds, with orders to throw themselves upon him and kill him at the first suspicious movement; but they saw nothing to confirm their suspicions, and at two A.M., Brissac brought them back much fatigued to the duke's, where he left them." Henry IV., having started on the 21st of March from Senlis, where he had mustered his troops, and arrived about midnight at St.Denis, immediately began his march to Paris.

The night was dark and stormy; thunder rumbled; rain fell heavily; the king was a little behind time.
At three A.M..

the policists inside Paris had taken arms and repaired to the posts that had been assigned to them.

Brissac had placed a guard close to the quarters of the Spanish ambassador, and ordered the men to fire on any who attempted to leave.