 In January 1357, Étienne Marcel led a merchants' revolt in a bid to curb the power of the monarchy and obtain privileges for the city and the Estates General, which had met for the first time in Paris in 1347.After initial concessions by the Crown, the city was retaken by royalist forces in 1358 and Marcel and his followers were killed.Thereafter, the powers of the local government were considerably reduced, and the city was kept much more tightly under royal control.