Thereafter, Joan attempted to capture Paris that September, but the siege was halted by the order of Charles VII after a four-hour assault yielded no progress.

Taking advantage of the disrupted English defences, on the early hours of 1 June, Armagnac troops led by the captains of nearby of Melun and Lagny seized Saint-Denis.

As the English representatives left the Congress, the Treaty of Arras was signed between Charles VII and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy on 21 September.

Paris was then a city of narrow streets, lacking large boulevards that would allow for easy troop movements.

Taking advantage of the diversion, the French royal forces promptly attacked the Porte Saint-Jacques on the city's east end, now poorly defended.