"There is no consideration shown," she said, "for my son's honor and my own; we will not suffer him to go away." But the cardinal insisted.

Prudent and far-sighted as he was, he knew that to depart was the only way of remaining.

He departed on the 19th of August, but without leaving the frontier: he took up his quarters at Bouillon.

The queen had summoned the Parliament to her at Pontoise.

A small number of magistrates responded to her summons, enough, however, to give the queen the right to proclaim rebellious the Parliament remaining at Paris.