It will always be easy for you not to employ persecution.
Those old formulas, of which nobody takes any notice, are no longer considered to be binding." The king yielded; he made no change in the form of the oath, and confined himself to stammering out a few incoherent words.

At the coronation of Louis XV.

the people, heretofore admitted freely to the cathedral, had been excluded; at the coronation of Louis XVI.

the officiator, who was the coadjutor of Rheims, omitted the usual formula addressed to the whole assembly, "Will you have this king for your king ?" This insolent neglect was soon to be replied to by the sinister echo of the sovereignty of the people.

The clergy, scared by M.
Turgot's liberal tendencies, reiterated their appeals to the king against the liberties tacitly accorded to Protestants.