eight
o’clock in the evening
However , Henri , you have a great advantage over your predecessors , in being warned , for you know your brother , do you not ? '' `` Yes , and , mordieu ! before long he shall find it out . '' Paris presented a fine sight , as through its then narrow streets thousands of people pressed towards the same point , for at eight o'clock in the evening , M. le Duc de Guise was to receive the signatures of the bourgeois to the League . A crowd of citizens , dressed in their best clothes , as for a fête , but fully armed , directed their steps towards the churches . What added to the noise and confusion was that large numbers of women , disdaining to stay at home on such a great day , had followed their husbands , and many had brought with them a whole batch of children . It was in the Rue de l'Arbre Sec that the crowd was the thickest .