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When the city of Grenoble chose the League in September 1589, the parliament lodged in the town refused this union without necessarily recognizing Henry IV as legitimate sovereign. The members of parliament, led by the first president Ennemond Rabot d’Illins (a man of law who was tormented by eschatological anguishes and imbued with classics), tried to chart a non-partisan middle way: neither for Henry IV nor for the League. These moyenneurs, inspired by Plato’s Republic, wanted to use justice at all cost to safeguard order and peace threatened by chaos. However, this utopia failed. The isolated parliament caught in the crossfire of royalists and leaguers collapsed. However, the moyenneurs had played a moderating role of mediators and had permitted to maintain the dialogue between the belligerents, thus avoiding radicalization and fanaticism.