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The Kentucke Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Letter from Bordeaux dated June 18, 1788, reports French King dissolving all Parliaments amid protests claiming oppression and tyranny. Peasantry's loyalty to nobility may aid opposition. Armed resistance in Dauphiny with casualties and prisoner; milder in Brittany. Support for reforms in Isle of France. Guienne Parliament relocates to Bordeaux without robes.
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The King has broken all the Parliaments, and they have protested against the measure as illegal, and are endeavouring to persuade the poor ignorant, happy, quiet, public, that his measures are oppressive and tending to tyranny, because they have for end the destruction of the almost unlimited and destructive power of the Nobility and Clergy.
Will they succeed? An infatuated love for Nobility, which prevails among the peasantry of this country, will favor, I fear, too much their selfish designs: But for the love of humanity and liberty, I hope they will be thwarted. In Dauphiny the subjects have taken arms, to prevent the military from compelling an enregistrement of the new regulations; which they effected, after the loss of a few lives, and took the commanding officer under the King, prisoner, and made him protest against the orders of his master, in a letter to the Minister, wrote with a suspended weapon of death over his head, with intention to put an end to his life in case of refusal. The same measures have been taken in Brittany, but with less rigour and without taking arms. These are the only Provinces that have manifested such violent opposition, they being two that have many extra privileges. In the Isle of France, the eyes of the People are more opened, and a great majority of them are against the Parliament, and in favor of the new measures.
The Parliament of Guienne have left Libourne and come to Bordeaux, as private bourgeois, being deprived of their red robes.
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France
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June 18, 1788
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in dauphiny, loss of a few lives; prevention of enregistrement effected, commanding officer taken prisoner and forced to protest. similar measures in brittany without arms. parliament of guienne relocated to bordeaux without red robes.
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The King has dissolved all Parliaments, which protested the action as illegal and claimed it tends to tyranny by targeting nobility and clergy power. Parliaments seek public support. Peasantry's loyalty to nobility may aid them. In Dauphiny, subjects armed against military enforcement of new regulations, succeeded after casualties, imprisoned officer, forced his protest to Minister under threat. In Brittany, similar but less rigorous, no arms. Only these privileged provinces opposed violently. In Isle of France, public favors new measures against Parliament.