"Yes," said L'Huillier, "render them, not sell them." The king went forward with his train, going along Rue St.Honore to the market of the Innocents and the bridge of Notre-Dame; the crowd increased at every step.

"Let them come near," said Henry; "they hunger to see a king." At every step, too, at sight of the smallest incident, the character of Henry, his natural thoughtful and lovable kindliness, shone forth.

He asked if his entry had met with resistance anywhere; and he was told that about fifty lanzknechts had been killed at the quay of L'Ecole.

"I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns," said he, "to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man." As he marched along the Rue St.Honore, he saw a soldier taking some bread by force from a baker's; he rushed at him, and would have struck him with his sword.

As he passed in front of the Innocents, he saw at a window a man who was looking at him, and pointedly keeping his hat on; the man perceived that the king' observed him, and withdrew, shutting down the window.