It was necessary to form at St.Malo a King's Chamber to try the accused.

M.de Calonne, an ambitious young man, the declared foe of M.de la Chalotais, was appointed attorney-general on the commission.

He pretended to have discovered grave facts against the accused; he was suspected of having invented them.

Public feeling was at its height; the magistrates loudly proclaimed the theory of Classes, according to which all the Parliaments of France, responsible one for another, formed in reality but one body, distributed by delegation throughout the principal towns of the realm.
The king convoked a bed of justice, and, on the 2d of March, 1766, he repaired to the Parliament of Paris.

"What has passed in my Parliaments of Pau and of Rennes has nothing to do with my other Parliaments," said Louis XV.