A popular history of France : from the earliest times . He meant, he said, to live and die amongst the peo-ple of Paris; if he was collecting his men-at-arms, it was notfor the purpose of plundering and oppressing Paris, but that hemight march against their common enemies; and if he had notdone so sooner, it was because the folks who had taken thegovernment gave him neither money nor arms; but they wouldsome day be called to strict account for it. The dauphin wassmall, thin, delicate, and of insignificant appearance ; but atthis juncture he displayed unexpected boldness and eloquence ;the peop
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . He meant, he said, to live and die amongst the peo-ple of Paris; if he was collecting his men-at-arms, it was notfor the purpose of plundering and oppressing Paris, but that hemight march against their common enemies; and if he had notdone so sooner, it was because the folks who had taken thegovernment gave him neither money nor arms; but they wouldsome day be called to strict account for it. The dauphin wassmall, thin, delicate, and of insignificant appearance ; but atthis juncture he displayed unexpected boldness and eloquence ;the people were deeply moved; and Marcel and his friends feltthat a heavy blow had just been dealt them. They hastened to respond with a blow of another sort. Itwas everywhere whispered abroad that if Paris was suffering somuch from civil war and the irregularities and calamities whichwere the concomitants of it, the fault lay with the dauphinssurroundings, and that his noble advisers deterred him frommeasures which would save the people from their THE MURDER OF THE MARSHALS. — Page 345. Chap. XXI.] THE STATES-GENERAL. 345 Provost Marcel and the burgesses of Paris took counsel to-gether and decided that it would be a good thing if some ofthose attendants on the regent were to be taken away from themidst of this world. They all put on caps, red on one side andblue on the other, which they wore as a sign of their confeder-ation in defence of the common weal. This done, they reassem-bled in large numbers on the 22d of February, 1358, with theprovost at their head, and marched to the palace where the dukewas lodged. This crowd encountered on its way, in thestreet called Juiverie (Jewry), the advocate-general RegnaultdAci, one of the twenty-two royal officers denounced by theestates in the preceding year ; and he was massacred in a pastry-cooks shop. Marcel, continuing his road, arrived at the palace,and ascended, followed by a band of armed men, to the apart-ments of the dauph
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