text:  The people rose to the cry of "Sainct Denys Vive le noble Roy de France!" The constable of France the Duke de Richemont and the Bastard of Orleans led them on; those troops that had been shut out of the Bastille tried to make their way up the Rue St Denis to the northern gateway and so to escape on the road to Beauvais and England but the inhabitants stretched chains across the street and men women and children showered down upon them from the windows chairs tables logs of wood stones and even boiling water; while others rushed in from behind and from the side streets with arms in their hands and the massacre of all the English fugitives ensued