The transfer of power to the new government was to begin on May 8, 1788 with the registration of the edicts establishing it in the regional Parlement.

The latter had refused unanimously following the Parlement of Paris.

If the King's commissioners forced the issue Parlement abandoned the meeting place only to return the next day to declare the registration null and void.

Armed protest sweeps the kingdom.

Street fighting breaks out at Rennes, Brittany.

A deputation sent to Paris from there is imprisoned in the Bastille.

The Bretons in Paris founds the Club Breton, later the Jacobin Society.

The Grand Bailliages cannot be created and the Plenary Court meets only once.