 However, the townspeople climbed onto the roofs of buildings, hurling roof-tiles at the soldiers in the streets below, hence the name.This drove royal troops out of the city in the first outbreak of political violence that became the revolution.In July, Claude Perier, inspired by all of the liberal ideas around him, assembled a meeting in the room of the "Jeu de Paume" in his Chateau de Vizille and hosted the meeting which was previously prohibited in Grenoble.