"You are master, of course." "Yes,--it is legal, because I so will." The edict relative to non-Catholics was read, and Louis XVI.

withdrew.
There was violent commotion in the assembly; the protest of the Duke of Orleans was drawn up in a more explicit form.

"The difference between a bed of justice and a royal session is, that one exhibits the frankness of despotism and the other its duplicity," cried d'Espremesnil.
Notwithstanding the efforts of M.de Malesherbes and the Duke of Nivernais, the Parliament inscribed on the registers that it was not to be understood to take any part in the transcription here ordered of gradual and progressive loans for the years 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792.

In reply, the Duke of Orleans was banished to Villers-Cotterets, whilst Councillors Freteau and Sabatier were arrested and taken to a state-prison.
By the scandalousness of his life, as well as by his obstructive buildings in the Palais-Royal, the Duke of Orleans had lost favor with the public; his protest and his banishment restored him at once to his popularity.

The Parliament piled remonstrance upon remonstrance, every day more and more haughty in form as well as in substance.