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302.]

[Footnote 1794: Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, pp. 456, 458.]

Certain monks who were acting in Paris as the King's spies, went out
to him at Saint-Denys and informed him that the attempt had failed.
According to them it had very nearly succeeded.[1795]

[Footnote 1795: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p. 344.]

The Sire de la Tremouille is said to have commanded the retreat, for
fear of a massacre. Indeed, once the French had entered they were
quite capable of slaughtering the townsfolk and razing the city to the
ground.[1796]

[Footnote 1796: _Chronique de Normandie_, in _Trial_, vol. iv, pp. 342,
343.]

On the morrow, Friday the 9th, the Maid, rising with the dawn, despite
her wound, asked the Duke of Alencon to have the call to arms sounded;
for she was strongly determined to return to the walls of Paris,
swearing not to leave them until the city should be taken.[1797]
Meanwhile the French captains sent a herald to Paris, charged to ask
for a safe conduct for the removing of the bodies of the dead left
behind in great numbers.[1798]

[Footnote 1797: Perceval de Cagny, p. 168.]

[Footnote 1798: _Ibid._ _Chronique normande_, in _La chronique de la
Pucelle_, p. 465. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.
ii, p. 120, note 1.]

Notwithstanding that they had suffered cruel hurt, after a retreat
unmolested it is true, but none the less disastrous and involving the
loss of all their siege train, several of the leaders were, like the
Maid, inclined to attempt a new assault. Others would not hear of it.
While they were disputing, they beheld a baron coming towards them and
with him fifty nobles; it was the Sire de Montmorency, the first
Christian peer of France, that is the first among the ancient vassals
of the bishop of Paris. He was transferring his allegiance from the
Cross of St. Andrew to the Flowers-de-luce.[1799] His coming filled the
King's men with courage and a desire to return to the city. The army
was on its way back, when the Count of Clermont and the Duke of Bar
were sent to arrest the march by order of the King, and to take the
Maid back to Saint-Denys.[1800]

[Footnote 1799: Duchesne, _Histoire de la maison de Montmorency_, p.
232. Perceval de Cagny, p. 168. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de
Charles VII_, vol. ii, pp. 118, 119.]

[Footnote 1800: G. Lefevre-Pontalis, _Un detail du siege de Paris_, in
_Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol. xlvi, 1885, p