Meeting of the Estates-General, 17809. 25 
Before this result was attained, however, the partisans of 
verification by order had the session adjourned, in spite of the 
protests of their opponents. Grégoire, one of the majority, says 
that this was done because the adherents of the proposal of the 
Archbishop of Paris regarded themselves as assured of the 
: majority, since the roll-call was about at an end.!”7 But the 
minutes of the majority declare that it was the combination of 
votes which aroused some members of the minority, because the 
_ whole question of verification was being reduced to two proposi- 
tions,!® the very thing that the higher clergy desired to avoid. 
When the matter came up on the morning of June 19, it was 
proposed to vote simply yes or no on common verification, but 
the higher clergy forced the vote on several propositions in order 
to split the majority for verification in common.!® But the 
combination of votes threatened to deprive them of their victory. 
Since they controlled the presidency, they appealed to the 
7 Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld to adjourn the session and the 
a ® 4 
minority left the hall.” 
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< Récit Thibault Grégoire Jallet Journal de Paris 
ee BSt -..135-+2=137 132+2=134 136 136 137 
Be 2d....127+3=130 129)141+8 128 145 129 
m ad.. 9 9 + (absent) several + 148 9 
wale... 3 3) =149 several | several 
—__ Independent 3 later 
The Histoire de la révolution (1, 208-209) states that the first had 137 votes, 
verification in common, I29 without amendment, 9 with amendment, but 
that finally the adherents of verification in common obtained 149 votes in 
all. The list of those who joined the national assembly on June 22 is given 
as 149 in the Procés-verbal, No. 4, p. 11-16. Viochot, in correcting the figures 
given by the Journal de Paris, sent a list of 149 signers of the decree to be 
published inthe paper. (tats généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, I, 83-84.) 
Without a doubt, verification in common had that number of adherents 
____ by the time the union occurred. The figures on the supporters of verification 
in separate assemblies vary from 134 to 137. 
7 Etuts-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, I, 91. 
18 Thibault, 238. 
19 Thid.; Jallet, 90-91; Histoire de Ja rév., 1, 207-208. 
20 Thibault, 238; Grégoire, in Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, 
I, 91; Histoire de la rév., I, 208-209. Jallet does not say that the session was 
suspended before the roll call was complete, but he does make it appear that 
the minority left before the supporters of verification in common. He implies 
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