 According to Calvin, these were people who felt that after being liberated through grace, they were exempted from both ecclesiastical and civil law.The group consisted of wealthy, politically powerful, and interrelated families of Geneva.At the end of January 1546, Pierre Ameaux, a maker of playing cards who had already been in conflict with the Consistory, attacked Calvin by calling him a "Picard", an epithet denoting anti-French sentiment, and accused him of false doctrine.