one o'clock
The Huguenots of Champagne had their rendezvous at Rosoy , a little more than twenty miles from Meaux , and they began to arrive there in the afternoon of the 28th . The Prince of Conde , who was awaiting them , feeling sure that the news of the movement must , in a few hours at any rate , be known at Meaux , marched for Lagny on the Mane , established himself there late in the evening , and seized the bridge . The news however had , as he feared , already reached the court ; and messages had been despatched in all haste to order up six thousand Swiss troops , who were stationed at Chateau-Thierry , thirty miles higher up the Maine . During the hours that elapsed before their arrival , the court was in a state of abject alarm , but at one o'clock the Swiss arrived ; and two hours later the court set out , under their protection , for Paris . The Prince of Conde , who had with him but some four hundred gentlemen , for the most part armed only with swords , met the force as it passed by Lagny . He engaged in a slight skirmish with it ; but being unable , with his lightly-armed followers , to effect anything against the solid body of the Swiss mountaineers , armed with their long pikes , he fell back to await reinforcements ; and the court reached Paris in safety . A messenger had arrived at Chatillon with the news when Francois and Philip rode in .