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serand, Paris, in fol. [_Histoire generale de Paris._]] [Footnote 1736: Delamare, _Traite de la police_, Paris, 1710, in folio, vol. i, p. 79. A. Bonnardot, _Dissertation archeologique sur les enceintes de Paris, suivie de recherches sur les portes fortifiees qui dependaient des enceintes de Paris_, 1851, in 4to, with plan. _Etudes archeologiques sur les anciens plans de Paris_, 1853, in 4to. _Appendice aux etudes archeologiques sur les anciens plans de Paris et aux dissertations sur les enceintes de Paris_, Paris, 1877, in 4to. _Etude sur Gilles Corrozet, suivie d'une notice sur un manuscrit de la Bibliotheque des ducs de Bourgogne, contenant une description de Paris, en 1432_, par Guillebert de Metz, Paris, 1846, in 8vo, 56 pages. Kausler, _Atlas des plus memorables batailles_, Carlsruhe, 1831, pl. 34. H. Legrand, _Paris en 1380_, with plan conjecturally reconstructed, Paris in fol. 1868, p. 58. A. Guilaumot, _Les Portes de l'enceinte de Paris sous Charles V_, Paris, 1879. Rigaud, _Chronique de la Pucelle, campagne de Paris, cartes et plans_, Bergerac, 1886, in 8vo.] The Parisians did not like the English and were sorely grieved by their occupation of the city. The folk murmured when, after the funeral of the late King, Charles VI, the Duke of Bedford had the sword of the King of France borne before him.[1737] But what cannot be helped must be endured. The Parisians may have disliked the English; they admired Duke Philip, a prince of comely countenance and the richest potentate of Christendom. As for the little King of Bourges, mean-looking and sad-faced, strongly suspected of treason at Montereau, there was nothing pleasing in him; he was despised and his followers were regarded with fear and horror. For ten years they had been ranging round the town, pillaging, taking prisoners and holding them to ransom. The English and Burgundians indeed did likewise. When, in the August of 1423, Duke Philip came to Paris, his men ravaged all the neighbouring fields, albeit they belonged to friends and allies. But they were only passing through,[1738] while the Armagnacs were for ever raiding, eternally stealing all they could lay hands on, setting fire to barns and churches, killing women and children, ravishing maids and nuns, hanging men by the thumbs. In 1420, like devils let loose, they descended upon the village of Champigny and burned at once oats, wheat, sheep, cows, oxen, women and children. Likewise did they and wor
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