"We, members of the noblesse of Brittany, do declare infamous those who may accept any place, whether in the new administration of justice or in the administration of the states, which is not recognized by the laws and constitutions of the province." A dozen of them set off for Versailles to go and denounce the ministers to Louis XVI.

Being put in the Bastille, eighteen of their friends went to demand then back; they were followed by fifty others.
The officers of the Bassigny regiment had taken sides with the opposition, and discussed the orders sent to them.

Among the great lords of the province, attached to the king's own person, MM.

de La Tremoille, de Rieux, and de Guichen left the court to join their protests to those of their friends; the superintendent, Bertrand de Molleville, was hanged- in effigy and had to fly.
In Bearn, the peasantry had descended from the mountains; hereditary proprietors of their little holdings, they joined the noblesse to march out and meet the Duke of Guiche, sent by the king to restore order.
Already the commandant of the province had been obliged to authorize the meeting of the Parliament.

The Bearnese bore in front of their ranks the cradle of Henry IV., carefully preserved in the Castle of Pau.