The greedy keeper of the seals was succeeded by Barentin, premier-president of the Court of Aids.

Two dummies, one dressed in a _simarre_ (gown) and the other in pontifical vestments, were burned on the Pont-Neuf: the soldiers, having been ordered to disperse the crowds, some persons were wounded and others killed; the mob had felt sure that they would not be fired upon, whatever disorder they showed; the wrath and indignation were great; there were threats of setting fire to the houses of MM.

de Brienne and de Lamoignon; the quarters of the commandant of the watch were surrounded.

The number of folks of no avocation, of mendicants and of vagabonds, was increasing every day in Paris.
Meanwhile the Parliament had gained its point, the great baillie-courts were abolished; the same difficulty had been found in constituting them as in forming the plenary court; all the magistrates of the inferior tribunals refused to sit in them; the Breton deputies were let out of the Bastille; everywhere the sovereign courts were recalled.

The return of the exiles to Paris was the occasion for a veritable triumph and the pretext for new disorders among the populace.