At three o'clock in the afternoon, ambassador, officers, and soldiers all evacuated Paris, and set out for the Low Countries.

The king, posted at a window over the gate of St.Denis, witnessed their departure.

They, as they passed, saluted him respectfully; and he returned their salute, saying, "Go, gentlemen, and commend me to your master; but return no more." After his conversion to Catholicism, the capture of Paris was the most decisive of the issues which made Henry IV.

really King of France.

The submission of Rouen followed almost immediately upon that of Paris; and the year 1594 brought Henry a series of successes, military and civil, which changed very much to his advantage the position of the kingship as well as the general condition of the kingdom.