Meeting of the Estates-General, 1789. 67 
ported to have added to this the suggestion that it should be 
announced that the assembly, always concerned for the popular 
interest, was going to send a deputation of the three orders to 
the king to ask him to grant free ingress into the hall.“ 
These suggestions seem to have been well received, for Bailly, 
Clermont-Tonnerre and the Archbishop of Vienne were sent 
outside and soon succeeded in quelling the uproar.* Bailly, 
it appears, asked the people at the door to withdraw, warning 
them that the assembly was going to send a deputation to ask 
of the king free access to the hall, and that they would surely 
be able to enter the next day.“® The Archbishop of Vienne 
adopted the clever ruse of engaging these persons as special 
emissaries to go into all quarters of the city, there to restore the 
peace and quiet,so necessary to the freedom of the assembly.*’ 
Conformably to the promise made and as the resumption of a 
half-finished portion of the previous day’s work, the assembly 
voted to send a deputation to the king. It was to carry the 
complaints of the assembly, first, that the place of its sessions 
was surrounded by soldiers; second, that entrance into the 
hall was forbidden to the public; in addition it was to repre- 
sent to the king that the policing of the hall where the assembly 
met should be controlled by the assembly itself. The deputa- 
tion was to be composed of twenty-four delegates, twelve from 
the third estate and six from each of the upper orders,*® thus 
44 Assemblée nat-onale, I, 226. 
45 Assemblée nationale, I, 226; Jallet, 104. This account omits mention 
of the Count of Clermont-Tonnerre. Duquesnoy, I, 129; Point du jour, I, 50; 
Courrier de Provence, Lettre XIII, 13-14; Bally, I, 233; Bulletin d'un agent 
secret, No. 47 (La révolution francaise, XXIV, 72); Boullé, Docs. inédiis, Revue 
de la rév., XIII, 108. 
48 Assemblée naiionale, I, 226; Bulle.in d’un agent secret, No. 47 (La révo- 
lution francaise, XXIV, 72), does not name Bailly as having used this argu- 
ment, but says such a one was made. 
47 Duquesnoy, I, 130; Point du jour, I, 50; Assemblée nationale, I, 226; 
Boullé, Docs. inédits, Revue de la rév., XIII, 76. 
48 Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, 1, 110; Boullé, Docs. inédits, 
Revue de la rév., XIII, 76; Procés-verbal, No. 7, 18-19; Point du jour, I, 51; 
Duquesnoy, I, 130; Assemblée nationale, I, 229; Courrier de Provence, Lettre 
XIII, 13. This matter of naming the deputation was taken up, evidently, 
some time after the popular disturbance. The Courrier de Provence places 
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