20 Jeanette Needham. 
hension and alarm may have arisen was quickly dispelled or 
turned to joy by the sight at the entrance. Preceded by the 
doorkeeper, bearing the credentials already verified in a box,” 
the archbishops of Vienne and Bordeaux and the bishops of 
Coutances, Rhodes and Chartres marched majestically into the 
hall. Following them, came the stately procession of dark- 
robed clergy, which advanced amid resounding acclamations 
and shouts of joy on the part of the excited commons,** who 
stood to receive their fellow deputies.** 
III 
This action on the part of the majority was the result of a 
decidedly stormy session of the clergy, who had met at nine 
o’clock in their own hall.t In meeting separately, they had 
obeyed the royal injunction of the previous day. Jallet, a curé 
belonging to the majority, makes it appear in his Journal, that 
the members of the clergy who had joined the national assembly 
on June 22, agreed to this course out of deference to the will of 
the prelates in their group. He states that the bishops in favor 
of union called a meeting for six o’clock the evening of June 23, 
to be held at the lodgings of the Archbishop of Vienne. His 
apartments being too small, those present went to the hall of 
their order to consider their course of action, presumably, in 
view of the king’s commands in the royal session. After de- 
8 Biauzat, II, 138: ‘“‘La majorité du clergé qui a porté ces régistres.” 
Point du jour, I, 46: ‘‘ Un secrétaire portait; ’’ Duquesnoy, I, 126: ‘‘ Précédés 
de leur huissier portant les cartons; ’’ Assemblée nationale, I, 214, says, “‘ |’huis- 
sier du clergé a annoncé le clergé,’’ and later comments on this official’s fol- 
lowing the majority (I, 215), adding, ‘‘ les papiers, le procés-verbal, les régis- 
tres, la caisse que les contient, le clergé n’a rien laissé dans la chambre.” 
Very probably, it’was the doorkeeper who bore the box, but the editor of the 
Point du jour mistook the identity of the man. 
33 Lettre d’un membre de l'assemblée nationale, 38-39; Bailli de Virieu, 103; 
Jefferson, II, 486; Dorset, I, 225-226; Duquesnoy, II, 126; Point du jour, 
I, 45-46; Biauzat, II, 138; Procés-verbal, No. 6, 4; Assemblée nationale, I, 214- 
215; Jallet, 102; Thibault, 248; Mercure de France: Journai Politique de 
Bruxelles, No. 27, p. 40. 
84 Thibault, 248. 
1 Thibault, 247. 
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