The mode imposed into 1257 to the Marseillais by Chapters of Peace undoubtedly like wanted it manners of this city were a very liberal municipal mode, but which could not be compared with the almost absolute independence which the old city had enjoyed until 1252.
The counts of Provence while swearing to respect communal freedoms of Marseilles, did what neither the Ligurians had been able to do, neither Visigoths, neither the Burgundian ones, nor Sarasins: they placed Marseilles under their domination.