105.] Excited by Jeanne's voice and encouraged by her presence, the citizens, crying slaughter, threw themselves on Gaucourt and his men-at-arms.

When the old baron perceived that he could do nothing with them, and that it was impossible to bring them to his way of thinking, he himself joined them.

He had the gates opened wide and cried out to the townsfolk: "Come, I will be your captain." And with the Lord of Villars and Sire d'Aulon he went out at the head of the soldiers, who had been keeping the gate, and all the train-bands of the town.

At the foot of La Tour-Neuve, at the eastern corner of the ramparts, there were boats at anchor.

In them l'Ile-aux-Toiles was reached, and thence on a bridge formed by two boats they crossed over the narrow arm of the river which separates l'Ile-aux-Toiles from the Sologne bank.[1039] Those who arrived first entered the abandoned fort of Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, and, while waiting for the others, amused themselves by demolishing it.[1040] Then, when all had passed over, the townsfolk gayly marched against Les Augustins.