[Footnote 1731: Monstrelet, vol. iv, pp. 352, 353. _Journal d'un
bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 247, 248. D. Felibien, _Histoire de Paris_,
vol. ii, p. 813, and proofs and illustrations, vol. iv, p. 591.
Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 208, 209, 224, note 2; vol. iv, appendix
xviii, pp. 343, 344.]

[Footnote 1732: Cf. vol. i, p. 34, note 3 (W.S.).]

[Footnote 1733: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, ch.
vii. _La diplomatie de Charles VII jusqu'au traite d'Arras_.]

[Footnote 1734: Perceval de Cagny, p. 166.]

CHAPTER III

THE ATTACK ON PARIS

In the days when King John was a prisoner in the hands of the English,
the townsfolk of Paris, beholding the enemy in the heart of the land,
feared lest their city should be besieged. In all haste therefore they
proceeded to put it in a state of defence; they surrounded it with
trenches and counter trenches. On the side of the University the
suburbs were left defenceless; small and remote, they were burned
down. But on the right bank the more extensive suburbs well nigh
touched the city. One part of them was enclosed by the trenches. When
peace was concluded, Charles, Regent of the Realm, undertook to
surround the town on the north with an embattled wall, flanked with
square towers, with terraces and parapets, with a road round and steps
leading up to the ramparts.

In certain places the trench was single, in others double. The work
was superintended by Hugues Aubriot, Provost of Paris, to whom was
entrusted also the building of the Saint-Antoine bastion, completed
under King Charles VI.[1735] This new fortification began on the east,
near the river, on the rising ground of Les Celestins. Within its
circle it enclosed the district of Saint Paul, the Culture
Sainte-Catherine, the Temple, Saint-Martin, Les Filles-Dieu, Saint
Sauveur, Saint Honore, Les Quinze Vingts, which hitherto had been in
the suburbs and undefended; and it reached the river below the Louvre,
which was thus united to the town. There were six gates in the
circumvallation, to wit: beginning on the east, the Baudet Gate or
Saint-Antoine Gate, the Saint-Avoye or Temple Gate, the Gate of the
Painters or of Saint-Denis, the Saint-Martin or Montmartre Gate, the
Saint-Honore Gate and the Gate of the Seine.[1736]

[Footnote 1735: Le Roux de Lincy, _Hugues Aubriot, prevot de Paris sous
Charles V_, Paris, 1862, in 8vo, _passim_. _Paris et ses historiens au
XIV'e et XV'e siecle_ by Le Roux de Lincy and Tis