32 Jeanette Needham. 
of organization in order to consider more important matters— 
more important in their judgment.’ 
As soon as the general excitement attendant upon the union 
had somewhat abated,’ a roll call of the clergy was begun, the 
names being read by their secretary.’ During this call, several 
incidents occurred which served to designate various members 
of the clergy as especially pleasing or displeasing to the national 
assembly because of their attitude toward the public welfare. 
When the name of the Archbishop of Aix, a member of the 
absent minority, was read, a deputy, said to have been M. Boucher 
from the same sénéchaussée, rose to denounce the archbishop as 
unfaithful to the mandates of his constituents in thus breaking 
with the majority of the clergy. But the Archbishop of Bor- 
deaux came to the defense of the accused by stating that those 
members of the clergy who were present cherished the hope of a 
complete union of their order and therefore did not wish to 
recognize the division in their ranks. Accordingly, he asked 
that the denunciation of the Archbishop of Aix might not be 
entered on the record.!®° Duquesnoy states that he asked the 
same favor for the absent Bishop of Lydda who, evidently, had | 
been likewise attacked.1! When, in the course of the call, 
7 Point du jour, 1, 47. In the matter of the archbishop’s speech, this 
account seems to supplement what is given in the Procés-verbal. It sum- 
marizes briefly the points made in the portion found in the minutes, and then 
continues, giving a quotation, presumably the conclusion of the speech. 
8 Assemblée nationale, I, 214; Duquesnoy, I, 126. 
9 Jallet, 102, says “‘ les secrétaires du clergé firent l’appel ’’; Point du jour, 
I, 46: “‘ Un secrétaire du clergé . . . a fait l’appel des députés du clergé.” 
The other accounts merely indicate that there was a roll call of the clergy; 
Duquesnoy, I, 126; Assemblée nationale, I, 214, Procés-verbal, No. 6, 5; Lettre 
d'un membre de l’assemblée nationale, 39; Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de 
la rév., XIII, 74. The latter states: ‘‘Un appel public accompagné d’une 
inscription de chacun d’eux sur le procés-verbal.” 
10 Point du jour, 1, 46; Duquesnoy, I, 126-27; Assemblée Nationale, I, 215- 
216. Only the Point du jour gives the name of the man that criticised the 
archhishop. Bulletins d’un agent secret, No. 47 (in La révo.ution frangaise, 
XXIV. 71) makes some mention of the attack on the Archbishop of Aix and 
the defense by the Archbishop of Bordeaux. Since this man wrote on June 
25, he may have seen this in the Point du jour which came out in the early 
morning. Elsewhere he has made use of this paper. 
11 Duquesnoy, I, 127. 
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