At last, in August, 1523, the court interest was triumphant; Parliament, to get rid of direct responsibility, referred the parties, as to the basis of the question, to the king's council; but it placed all the constable's possessions under sequestration, withdrawing the enjoyment of them wholly from him.

A few years afterwards Poyet became chancellor, and Lizet premier-president of Parliament.

"Worth alone," say the historians, "carved out for Montholon at a later period the road to the office of keeper of the seals." The constable's fall and ruin were complete.

He at an early stage had a presentiment that such would be the issue of his lawsuit, and sought for safeguards away from France.

The affair was causing great stir in Europe.