The King's Letters De Cache

On august fourteenth, every member of the paris parliament was handed an individual lettre de cache ordering them to leave the radically energized paris and reconvene in the sleepy town of tois. Lettres de cache were hugely unpopular and pretty high up on everyone's list of tyrannical abuses that needed to be reformed. The king decided it was time to start walking back from whatever brink they were all approaching. He sent conciliatory letters to the parliament to arrange a compromise. It's hard to see this as anything but a complete cave in.