The members of the Parlement had begun to jest that they require either the accounting States or the Estates General.

The King cannot let this slight to his authority pass.

Parlement had been commanded to assemble at the King's palace at Versailles where, on August 6, he had ordered them in person to register the taxes.

On August 7, back in Paris, the Parlement declares, in earnest this time, that the order is null and void, repudiating all previous registrations of taxes.

Only the Estates General, they say, can register taxes.