As the King and Parlement could accomplish…

May 1788 CE

As the King and Parlement could accomplish no more together, Loménie, over the winter, had pressed for an alternative plan; to resurrect even more archaic institutions.

The Grand Bailliages, or larger legal jurisdictions that once had existed, will assume Parlement's legal functions, while the Plenary Court, last known under Louis IX, when it had the power to register edicts, will assume the registration duties of the Parlement, leaving it with no duties to perform.

The King plans a sudden revelation and dismissal of Parlement.

However, Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil had heard the government presses running and had bribed the printer to give him the proofs of the edict.

Hearing it read the next day, May 3, 1788, Parlement swears an oath not to be disbanded and defines a manifesto of their rights.

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