Upon this, Sully at once went over to the king's opinion.

In September, 1603, letters for the restoration of the Jesuits were issued and referred to the Parliament of Paris.

They there met, on the 24th of December, with strong opposition and remonstrances that have remained celebrated, the mouthpiece being the premier president Achille de Harlay, the same who had courageously withstood the Duke of Guise.

He conjured the king to withdraw his letters patent, and to leave intact the decree which had banished the Jesuits.

This was not, he said, the feeling of the Parliament of Paris only, but also of the Parliaments of Normandy and Burgundy; that is, of two thirds of the magistrates throughout the king dom.