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But the parlement of Paris acquits the good cardinal,
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and he emerges from the palace of justice or the parement
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--still now on the Ile de-la-Cit,
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the largest of the then three
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but now two islands in the Seine in Paris--
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to popular acclaim, saying that justice and the interests of the nation
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have been served by his acquittal.
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What this sleazy, unsavory incident does is
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it helps continue the desacralization of the French monarchy.
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Again, lawyers and the people
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who see themselves as representing the interests of the French nation are,
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in their own imaginary, and in their own mental construction,