Ragged ruffians ran to the magistrates, and compelled them to meet in the sessions-hall.

The members of Parliament succeeded with great difficulty in pacifying the mob.

As soon as they found themselves free, they hastened away into exile.

Other hands had taken up their quarrel.

A certain number of members of the three orders met at the town hall, and, on their private authority, convoked for the 21st of July the special states of Dauphiny, suppressed a while before by Cardinal Richelieu.
The Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre had been superseded by old Marshal Vaux, rough and ready.