[51] They were summoned on 29th December, 1786, and met on 22d February of the subsequent year.--S. [52] M. Loménie de Brienne was born at Paris in 1727. On being appointed Prime Minister, he was made Archbishop of Sens, and on retiring from office, in 1788, he obtained a cardinal's hat. He died in prison in 1794. [53] Such Convocations all our ills descry, And promise much, but no true cure apply. [54] Viz., One on timber, and one on territorial possessions.--See THIERS, vol. i., p. 14. [55] "Lit de Justice"--the throne upon which the King was seated when he went to the Parliament. [56] Mignet, Hist. de la Rev. Française, tom. i., p. 21. [57] Freteau and Sabatier. They were banished to the Hières. In 1794, Freteau was sent to the guillotine by Robespierre. [58] Mignet, tom. i., p. 22; Thiers, tom. i., p. 19. [59] De Staël, tom. i., p. 169. [60] Thiers, tom. i., p. 37. [61] 25th August, 1788. The archbishop fled to Italy with great expedition, after he had given in his resignation to his unfortunate sovereign.--See _ante_, p. 50.--S. [62] When Necker received the intimation of his recall, his first words were, "Ah! why did they not give me those fifteen months of the Archbishop of Sens? Now it is too late."--DE STAËL, vol. i., p. 157. [63] De Bouillé was a native of Auvergne, and a relative of La Fayette. He died in London, in 1800. [64] See Mémoires de Bouillé. Madame de Staël herself admits this deficiency in the character of a father, of whom she was justly proud.--"Se fiant trop il faut l'avouer, à l'empire de la raison."--S.--("Confiding, it must be admitted, too much in the power of reason.")--_Rev. Franç._, tom. i., p. 171. [65] "The concessions of Necker were the work of a man ignorant of the first principles of the government of mankind. It was he who overturned the monarchy, and brought Louis XVI. to the scaffold. Marat, Danton, Robespierre himself, did less mischief to France: he brought on the Revolution, which they consummated."--NAPOLEON, as reported by _Bourrienne_, tom. viii., p. 108. [66] A _calembourg_ of the period presaged a different result.--"So numerous a concourse of state-physicians assembled to consult for the weal of the nation, argued," it was said, "the imminent danger and approaching death of the patient."--S. CHAPTER IV.