From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

smallest piece of wood or stone, jutting out of the
walls, on which a spectator was not perched,
provided there was but room enough, and one
might have fancied the streets were paved with
human heads."[2] Though it was day, a lighted
taper was stuck in the front of every house "to do
reverence to the blessed Sacrament and the holy
relics.[3]
At the early hour of six the procession
marshalled at the Louvre. First came the banners
and crosses of the several parishes; next appeared
the citizens, walking two and two, and bearing
torches in their hands. The four Mendicant orders
followed; the Dominican in his white woollen
gown and black cloak; the Franciscan in his gown
of coarse brown cloth, half-shod feet, and truncated
cowl covering his shorn head; the Capuchin in his
funnel-shaped cowl, and patched brown cloak,
girded with a white three-knotted rope; and the
Augustine with a little round hat on his shaven
head, and wide black gown girded on the loins with
a broad sash. After the monks walked the priests
and canons of the city.
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