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Would there be no fighting in defence of Paris only thirty miles away? Wednesday, September 2nd that was the day the guns began, our guns and theirs, to the north of Senlis. But, in the course of that day, we knew finally there would be no battle between us and Paris. The French troops were going the English were going. They left us marching eastward. Our hearts were very sore as we saw them go.
He made his arrangements for the government of each of the towns which had acknowledged him: Beauvais, Compiegne, Senlis, and the rest. He appointed commissioners for the due regulation of the truce with Philip of Burgundy.
His companion, eight or nine metres away, too far to hear what was said, watched the scene. As I think of it, I seem to see in the southern sky the glare of burning Senlis; above it, and spread over the stubble fields in which the party stood, a peaceful moonlight. In his written account, the Curé specially mentions the brightness of the harvest moon.
The bishop of Senlis and the prior of the Carthusians, two valiant Maccabees, were seen, crucifix in one hand, a pike in the other, leading a procession of armed priests, monks and scholars through the streets. Friars from the mendicant orders were among them, their habits tucked up, hoods thrown back, casques on their heads and cuirasses on their breasts.
The court soon removed thence to Senlis, where Henry continued to make his principal abode, till news from the banks of the Loire roused him from inactivity. The Dauphin, now finding the English monarch removed from his immediate neighborhood, again advanced with all the forces he could gather, and laid siege to Cône-sur-Loire, then garrisoned by the troops of Burgundy.
The officer himself presently took him outside the town, and left him under guard, at the little village of Poteau, at the edge of a wood." What had happened? Unluckily for Senlis and M. Odent, some of the French rear-guard infantry stragglers, and a small party of Senegalese troops were still in the southern quarter of the town when the Germans entered.
At dusk he crawled forth from his culvert, trembling, his hands and face all mottled with stinging-nettles and scratched with thistles; he found his master's house a smouldering ruin, and a thick pall of smoke lay over the town of Senlis like a fog. Somewhere a woman shrieked and then was still.
On August 23 the Maid and d'Alençon left the king at Compiègne and rode to St. Denis, where were the tombs of the kings of France. 'And when the king heard that they were at St. Denis, he came, very sore against his will, as far as Senlis, and it seems that his advisers were contrary to the will of the Maid, of the Duc d'Alençon, and of their company.
I would have given half my arrears of pay if my mother could have seen me at that instant. 'I will show you your route, said he, turning back to the map. 'Your orders are to ride together as far as Bazoches. You will then separate, the one making for Paris by Oulchy and Neuilly, and the other to the north by Braine, Soissons, and Senlis. Have you anything to say, Brigadier Gerard?
Louvain has ceased to exist! We will make of Senlis another Louvain, so that Paris and France may know how we treat those who may imitate you. "'Already? I thought. How had there been any time for the post-mortem? But I was too crushed to speak. "'And also from your belfry we have been fired on! "At that I recovered myself. "'Sir what may have passed in the streets, I cannot say.
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