With Mazarin whose brother is an archbishop in Aix, one attends with the Sling and ceaseless hoop nets in consequence of the edict of Fontainebleau which doubled the load of the members of Parliament realising

finances, obliging them to sit only one six-month period, thus causing a working class unrest which will find its paroxysm in Marseilles. This city enters thus in open rebellion against the royal authority. Louis XIV decides to subject rebels it and to strike it of a heavy contribution. He enters the city on March 2 1660 and decides the construction of the forts St-Nicolas and St-Jean to ensure the monitoring of this turbulent city. This reduction with obedience was very significant. It marked the beginning of a new mode which ensured the tender the royal authority and was going finally to bear its fruits in the urban development and an improvement of the living conditions.