<P> For the second time, the King summoned Parlement away from Paris, where crowds of people cheered their every act from the street, this time to meet at Troyes, Champagne on 15 August . He did not personally appear . By messenger he and Parlement negotiated an agreement: the King withdrew the Stamp Tax and modified the Land Tax to exclude the lands of people of title in return for the assured registration of further loans . Parlement was allowed to return on 20 September . Encouraged, Loménie, with the support of the King, went beyond the intent of the Parlement which was to grant specific loans . He proposed an Emprunt Successif (Successive Loan) until 1792 giving the King a blank cheque . When Parlement delayed the King resorted to a ruse; he scheduled a Royal Hunt for 19 November . On that day at 11: 00 AM the King and his peers noisily entered the session of Parlement dressed in hunting clothes . They would confer with each other and have the decisions registered immediately, they said . </P> <P> Nearly the entire government was now face - to - face . They argued the problems and issues concerned until dusk, some six hours later . Parlement believed that the problem had gone beyond the government and needed the decisions of the Estates General which did not correspond to the King's concept of monarchy . At the end of the day, the King demanded the registration of the Successive Loan . The Duc d'Orléans (a previous Notable, a relative of the King, and an ardent revolutionary), known as Philippe Égalité, asked if this were a Royal Session of the Peers or a Session of Parlement . On being told it was a Royal Session he replied that edicts were not registered at Royal Sessions . The King retorted, Vous êtes bien le maître (do as YOU will) with some sarcasm as the King's will was legally required, and strode angrily from the session with a retinue . Lettres de Cachet, or arbitrary arrest warrants, followed on the 20th for D'Orleans and two others . They were taken into custody and held under comfortable conditions away from Paris; D'Orleans on his country estate . Parlement began a debate on the legality of Lettres de Cachet . The men being held became a cause célèbre . </P> <P> As the King and Parlement could accomplish no more together De Brienne, over the winter, pressed for an alternative plan; to resurrect even more archaic institutions . The Grand Bailliages, or larger legal jurisdictions that once had existed, would assume Parlement legal functions, while the Plenary Court, last known under Louis IX, when it had the power to register edicts, would assume the registration duties of the Parlement, leaving it with no duties to perform . The King planned a sudden revelation and dismissal of Parlement . However, Jean - Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil heard the government presses running and bribed the printer to give him the proofs of the edict . Hearing it read the next day, 3 May 1788, Parlement swore an oath not to be disbanded and defined a manifesto of their rights . </P> <P> Warrants were issued for Eprémesnil and another but they escaped from their homes over the rooftops in the early morning to seek refuge in Parlement . The King sent his guards into Parlement to arrest them . They surrendered . Parlement filed silently out between a line of guards . The commander gave the key to the building to the King . </P>

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