i, hairy manana. 
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It added that the session was adjourned at that point and that, 
apparently, no definite decree was passed.™4 
Members of the majority protested immediately against the 
inaccuracy of the paper’s information. On June 20, Grégoire 
wrote to the editors of the Journal regarding their error in the 
matter of numbers. He inclosed with the letter a full account 
of the session of June 19, which agrees, in the main, with that 
given in the minutes.” The next day Viochot, Curé de Maligny, 
deputy of the clergy of Troyes, sent to the paper a complete 
list of the signers of the decree, unanimously passed by the 
majority, and asked that it be printed along with his letter. 
Lack of space, so the editors stated, prevented the insertion of 
the list, but they published the letter and stated the number 
of the signers of the decree to have been one hundred forty- 
nine.”6 
Through such appeals as these, as well as by their subsequent 
action in joining the national assembly, the majority strongly 
fortified its position in public opinion. But the minority had 
not formally recognized the procedure of the majority on June 19. 
Jallet says that the latter was prepared on June 20 to force the 
confirmation of their action by a new roll-call if the minority 
showed any inclination to question it.2” The suspension of the 
assemblies until after the royal session prevented the execution 
of this plan. On the other hand, the unyielding hostility of 
the minority toward the action of the majority was made very 
clear through the part played by the former in closing the halls 
on June 20.28 It was only natural that the majority should seize 
the first opportunity to wrest from the recalcitrant higher clergy, 
recognition of the legality of their action on June 19. 
All their efforts in that direction on the morning of June 24 
were doomed to failure. The rather brief accounts available 
upon the debate indicate that it was recriminatory as well as 
most disorderly. The majority howled down every attempt to 
*4 Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, I, 81. 
6 Ibid., 89-91. 
°6 Ftats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, 1, 83-84. 
*7 Jallet, 93-94. 
28 Jallet, 93; Coster, Récit, 341. 
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