The premier president spoke in so bitter a tone of the unhappy policy of the minister, that the little king, feeling hurt, told his mother that, if he had thought it would not displease her, he would have made the premier president hold his tongue, and would have dismissed him.

On the 30th of January, Anne of Austria sent word to the Parliament that she would consent to grant the release of the princes, "provided that the armaments of Stenay and of M.de Turenne might be discontinued." But it was too late; the Duke of Orleans had made a treaty with the princes.

England served as pretext.
Mazarin compared the Parliament to the House of Commons, and the coadjutor to Cromwell.

Monsieur took the matter up for his friends, and was angry.

He openly declared that he would not set foot again in the Palais-Royal as long as he was liable to meet the cardinal there, and joined the Parliament in demanding the removal of Mazarin.