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Meeting of the Estates-General, 1789. a3 
Abbé Grégoire and Curé Jallet were named, they were greeted 
with warm applause, but the name of the notorious Abbé Maury 
was violently hissed.” 
According to the Point du jour, it was in the midst of this 
proceeding, about a quarter after one, that an interruption was 
caused by the reception of a letter from Necker to President 
Bailly.% In view of the events in which Necker had figured the 
previous evening, the effect of such a communication upon the 
assembly can well be imagined. When the letter was read, 
setting forth Necker’s desire to express his profound gratitude 
for the marks of good-will and esteem shown him by members 
of the third estate on the night before and proclaiming his 
determination to work with renewed zeal for the public welfare, 
it was received with ringing applause and cries of ‘Vive M. 
Necker!’’!+ 
Again the hopes of the deputies must have been raised high 
by Necker’s declaration of his intention and by his extremely 
friendly attitude toward those who had annulled what he him- 
self had opposed in its inception. His action was all the more 
significant in view of the fact that he was in the service of the 
government, which was doing all that it could to enforce its 
reactionary policy. Any suspicion that Necker was connected 
with such an attempt must have been removed by the com- 
12 Duquesnoy, I, 126, 127; Point du jour, 1, 46. Jallet is not named in 
the first account, but perhaps he is meant in this: “‘ Lorsqu’on nommait un 
des prélats assistants, les applaudissements recommengaient.”” Maury is 
not named in the second, but there is reference to him, evidently, in this 
sentence: ‘‘ Il n’ena pas été de méme d’un autre membre du clergé, plus con- 
nus par quelques panégyriques que par son patriotisme.’’ There is some 
slight variation in the order or reporting these incidents of the roll call. The 
Assemblée nationale (I, 214-215) indicates that there was a great deal of 
applause during the roll call, so much that Bailly had to ask for silence. 
18 Point du jour, 1, 46; Assemblée nationale, I, 216, also says that the letter 
came during the roll-call; Duquesnoy, I, 127, seems to follow practically the 
same order; Procés-verbal, No. 6, 15, records the reception of the letter after 
the completion of the roll-call and the report of the committee of verification 
following the call. 
14 Duquesnoy, 1, 127; Point du jour, |, p. 46 (gives copy of letter; I, 72); 
Procés-verbal, No. 6, 15-16; Assemblée nationale, 1, 216; Histoire de la rév., I, 
228. 
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