Two guardsmen, Miomandre and Tardivet du Repaire , each separately attempted to face down the crowd and were overpowered. The violence boiled over as Tardivet's head was shorn off and raised aloft on a pike. As battering and screaming filled the halls around her, the queen ran barefoot with her ladies to the king's bedchamber and spent several agonizing minutes banging on its locked door, unheard above the din. In a close brush with death, they barely escaped through the doorway in time.