progress towards the west, he seized
Etampes, Chartres, and other fortresses; and was at last able to
deliver the queen, who fled to Troye, and openly declared against those
ministers who, she said, detained her husband in captivity.[****]

* Le Laboureur, liv. xxxv. chap. 10.

** St. Remi, chap. 74. Monstrelet, chap. 167.

*** St. Remi, chap. 79.

**** St. Remi, chap. 81. Monstrelet, chap. 178, 179.

Meanwhile the partisans of Burgundy raised a commotion in Paris, which
always inclined to that faction. Lile-Adam, one of the duke's
captains, was received into the city in the night-time, and headed the
insurrection of the people, which in a moment became so impetuous that
nothing could oppose it. The person of the king was seized: the dauphin
made his escape with difficulty; great numbers of the faction of
Armagnac were immediately butchered: the count himself, and many persons
of note, were thrown into prison: murders were daily committed from
private animosity, under pretence of faction: and the populace, not
satiated with their fury, and deeming the course of public justice
too dilatory, broke into the prisons, and put to death the count of
Armagnac, and all the other nobility who were there confined.[*]

{1418.} While France was in such furious combustion, and was so ill
prepared to resist a foreign enemy, Henry, having collected some
treasure and levied an army, landed in Normandy at the head of
twenty-five thousand men; and met with no considerable opposition from
any quarter. He made himself master of Falaise; Evreux and Caen
submitted to him; Pont de l'Arche opened its gates; and Henry, having
subdued all the lower Normandy, and having received a reenforcement of
fifteen thousand men from England,[**] formed the siege of Rouen, which
was defended by a garrison of four thousand men, seconded by the
inhabitants, to the number of fifteen thousand.[***] The cardinal des
Ursins here attempted to incline him towards peace, and to moderate his
pretensions; but the king replied to him in such terms as showed that he
was fully sensible of all his present advantages: "Do you not see," said
he, "that God has led me hither as by the hand? France has no sovereign:
I have just pretensions to that kingdom: every thing is here in the
utmost confusion: no one thinks of resisting me. Can I have a more
sensible proof, that the Being who disposes of empires has determined to
put the crown of France upon my