103]: "everybody gets up, runs about, in confusion, not knowing whither to go.

The churches open at dead of night; nobody takes any more note of time, bed-time, or day-time, or meal-time.

Paris was beside itself; all the houses of officials were besieged by a continual crowd; knots collected, at all the cross-roads.

The people cried, 'If he should die, it will be for having marched to our aid.' People accosted one another, questioned one another in the churches, without being the least acquainted.

There were many churches where the priest who pronounced the prayer for the king's health interrupted the intoning with his tears, and the people responded with nothing but sobs and cries.