Claude Perier, inspired by all of the liberal ideas around him, assembles a meeting in the room of the Jeu de Paume in his Chateau de Vizille in July, and hosts the meeting that was previously prohibited in Grenoble.

Almost five hundred men gather at the banquet hosted by Perier.

In attendance there are many "notables" including churchmen, businessmen, doctors, notaries, municipal officials, lawyers, and landed nobility.

Demanded at this meeting is the Convocation in Paris of an Estates-General (a form of national parliament).

This meeting marks the first portion of the French Revolution.

Opposition to absolutist monarchy finally comes out into the open, with increasing support for its demands, and will culminate in the meeting of the Estates General.