Notwithstanding the justice of not confounding the Duke
of Mayenne with the Parisians, I saw this advice was likely to be
followed, and it certainly might have produced some very bad consequence.
I therefore insisted so strongly upon the advantage of letting the
people, already recovered from their first terrors, taste the sweets of a
peace which would interest them still more in the King's favor, that this
Prince declared he would grant the truce they demanded of him, but for
the months of August, September, and October only.
The next day a prodigious concourse of the populace of Paris assembled at
St. Denis. The King showed himself to the people and assisted publicly at
mass; wherever he turned his steps the crowd was so great that it was
sometimes impossible to pierce through it, while every moment a million
of voices cried, "Long live the King!" Everyone returned, charmed with
the gracefulness of his person, his condescension, and that engaging
manner which was natural to him. "God bless him!" said they, with tears
in their eyes, "and grant that he may soon do the same in our Church of
Notre Dame in Paris." I observed to the King this disposition of the
people with regard to him; tender and sensible as he was, he could not
behold this spectacle without strong emotions.
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