This was the motive that restrained her to remain alone with her children in the bed-chamber.

The king hoped that she was forgotten, but it was the queen particularly the women of this mob sought and called for in terms the most offensive for a wife, a woman, and a queen.
The king was scarcely surrounded by the masses of people in the _OEil de Boeuf_ than the doors of the sleeping apartment were beset with the same uproar and violence.

But this party was principally composed of women.

Their weaker arms were not so efficient against oaken panels and stout hinges.

They called to their assistance the men who had carried the piece of ordnance into the _Salle des Gardes_, and they hastened to them.