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`` There is going to be a night masque , and a mock combat at the Louvre , '' the man said . `` It is strange . I heard nothing about it at the Louvre , '' Philip said , as they proceeded on their way . `` I was with the King of Navarre up to ten o'clock and , had anything been known of it by him or the gentlemen with him , I should have been sure to have heard of it . '' They were joined by two or three other Huguenot gentlemen , roused by the unusual light and talking in the street ; and they proceeded together to the Louvre . Large numbers of torches were burning in front of the palace , and a body of soldiers was drawn up there . `` The man was right , '' the Sieur de Pascal said .