And if he were to have escaped death until the present time, the French would not now have that breached place, for that people is readily defeated by ingenuity or by arms. He would hold them all off far from the city. Nor, with Henry visible on earth, would any enemy have ever taken the well-peopled city. Never when the king lived did any Frenchman dare to take the road hither bringing war, to destroy the city or to contest with our men in strength, dreading even the name of the king.