Doke John certain endowments should be made and certain
buildings erected by the king. Then came more tangible
Batisfaetions to the Duke of Burgundy, — the cession in per-
petuity of the counties of Aiixerre and M&con and three
ckAteUenies ; cession, with permission to ransom, of the
towns of the Somme, St. Quentin, Amiens, Abbeville, and
others; cession of the feudal revenues of the county of
Artois ; and exemption of the duke during his lifetime and
that of the king from every sort of dependence upon the
latter.
CharlM Vn. at Paris (1436).— These humiliatii^ con- ■
cessions had an immediate compensation : the treaty of
Arras gave the king of France Paris. The citizens invited
the constable de Bichemont, and in May, 1436, opened their
gates to him. The English garrison of fifteen hundred men
shut themselves up in the Bastile. Eichemont was totally
unprepared to undertt^e a siege. The English offered to
surrender the Bastile on condition of being ^owed to
withdraw with their ba^age and those persons who should
desire to accompany them; and thi^ form of capitulation
va& accepted.
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EIGHTH PERIOD.
Final Victokt of the Crown over T^E Feu-
dal Abistocract (1436-1491).
CHAPTER XXXin.
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I.
{1436-1401 A.D.)

Sitaation of tlie Kiii|rdDm. — Some time after the Burien-
der of I'aris, Charles VII. paid a visit to his capital. The
pestilence still prevailed in the city. The streets were ao
deserted that wolves came into the town : forty persona
were devoTiied by them in a single week of September,
1438.
