12 Jeanette Needham. 
then followed the complaint with a proposal that inquiries con- 
cerning the orders of the troops be made, to enable the deputies 
to deliberate upon the situation. 
The assembly was in a position requiring the greatest caution 
and discretion on the part of its members, but every detail of 
their previous action seemed to warrant the belief that nothing 
conclusive would be done without careful and foresighted 
deliberation. However much they might be aroused by the 
presence of the troops, it was essential that they should know 
just what those troops were bidden to do in order to have a 
firm basis upon which to found their objections. 
Evidently in response to Bailly’s proposal, which must have 
been adopted, Rennecourt, officer of the provost guard in the 
interior of the hall, was summoned" and the minutes show that a 
commission consisting of Rostaing, Gouy, and Pison du Galland, 
was despatched to get information from the exterior guard.!” 
It seems that Rennecourt willingly complied with the assembly’s 
avec les autres chambres était interrompue;”’ the first, “ Un des messieurs 
a dit qu’on avait fermé les portes de communication intérieure de la salle.” 
Bailly says in his Mémoires (I, 224) that he laid the matter before the 
assembly. In the first point of the complaint, the Procés-verbal and the 
Point du jour agree, but the latter says nothing of the succeeding points 
which are given in the Procés-verbal alone. Both Boullé and the Lettre refer 
to motions on the military situation, but say that no definite action was taken 
before the clergy came. 
15 Procés-verbal, No. 6, 2. 
18 Procés-verbal, No. 6, 2; Point du jour, I, 45; Assemblée nationale, I, 216—- 
217. The Itter says: ‘‘ La proposition fut acceptée,’’ but it evidently refers 
to an incident of June 25, which Bailly gives (I, 234) regarding measures taken 
to secure the release of Rennecourt, who had heen arrested. The Assemblée 
nationale seems to have confused occurrences of June 25 with those of June 
24—a circumstance not so surprising when we remember that the editor 
was not present at the sessions and that the paper appeared but three times 
a week. The account continues: ‘‘ M. Bailly a mandé ensuite l’officier de 
garde, pour lui demander de qu’il recevait les ordres, quels ils étaient.” 
Neither of the other two sources says that it was in answer to Bailly’s pro- 
posal that the officer came, but, in either case, the report of his coming im- 
mediately follows the record of the complaint. Bailly says in his Mémoires 
(I, 224): *‘ Je demandai, par son ordre, M. de Rennecourt,”’ just after telling 
about laying the matter before the assembly. 
17 Procés-verbal, No. 6, 3; Assemblée nationale, I, 217. The latter does 
not give the names, but says ‘‘ deux députés avec un secrétaire.”’ 
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