It is true that the French did not abuse their victory.

No outrage was committed; the privileges of the municipality were respected, the magistrates were not changed.

Yet the people could not see a conqueror enter their hitherto unconquered castle without tears of rage and shame.

Even the barefooted Carmelites, who had renounced all pleasures, all property, all society, all domestic affection, whose days were all fast days, who passed month after month without uttering a word, were strangely moved.

It was in vain that Lewis attempted to soothe them by marks of respect and by munificent bounty.
Whenever they met a French uniform they turned their heads away with a look which showed that a life of prayer, of abstinence and of silence had left one earthly feeling still unsubdued.