Chancellor Srguier made his escape, in order to go and rejoin the court.

Nobody really believed in the cardinal's withdrawal; men are fond of yielding to appear ances in order to excuse in their own eyes a change in their own purposes.

Disorder went on increasing in Paris; the great lords, in their discontent, were quarrelling one with another; the Prince of Conde struck M.de Rieux, who returned the blow; the Duke of Nemours was killed in a duel by M.de Beaufort; the burgesses were growing weary of so much anarchy; a public display of feeling in favor of peace took place on the 24th of September in the garden of the Palais-Royal; those present stuck in their hats pieces of white paper in opposition to the Frondeurs' tufts of straw.

People fought in the streets on behalf of these tokens.

For some weeks past Cardinal de Retz had remained inactive, and his friends pressed him to move.