 His exorbitant ransom began to drain the already depleted French treasury and the authority exercised by the nobility diminished.In the spring of 1358 violence broke out in Paris, as a clothier named Étienne Marcel seized the city with an army of townsmen, drove out the Dauphin and formed a revolutionary commune, presided over by Marcel.Cale was sympathetic to the Parisians, and so when a similar rebellion began to ferment in the Beauvais region, he rose to become its leader, forming bands of peasants, villagers and brigands into a fairly cohesive though ill-equipped force.