68 Jeanette Needham. 
following the established ratio of representation which recog- 
nized the existence of orders. Of those who were to go, the 
Archbishop of Vienne headed the list of the clergy, which in- 
cluded also the Bishop of Coutances; Pison du Galand, Target, 
Mounier, Le Chapelier, and Rabaud de Saint-Etienne are to be 
noted among the third estate, while the Duc d’Aiguillon, the 
Marquis de la Coste, and the Comte de Castellane formed half 
of the noble delegates.42 When he wrote on June 26, Duquesnoy 
said that he had been assured that the king had promised to 
receive the deputation, but without recognizing the title of 
deputation from the estates-general.*” 
As usual, a large part of the session was taken up with matters 
pertaining to the furtherance of the assembly’s organization. 
The oath was administered to M. Baudouin, who had been 
chosen official printer of the assembly’s records.*!' Committees 
were enlarged to keep pace with the growth of the assembly. 
The credentials of sixteen of the nobles were publicly verified 
at once, that they might be added to the committee of veri- 
fication.» Three of these, it happened, had not produced the 
proper papers, but they were given two weeks to report and 
were granted a provisional seat and allowed to take part in 
debate. In this committee, the principle of proportional 
the discussion on the deputation before the attempt of the people to enter, 
but clearly it is incorrect. Mercure de France: Journal Politique de Bruxelles, 
No. 27, 46. 
49 The list given by the Procés-verbal (No. 7, 19) is as follows, with the 
spelling corrected by comparison with the list in Brette: Clergy, MM. Arch- 
bishop of Vienne, Bishop of Coutances, Abbé d’Abbecourt, De Surade, Aury, 
De Champeaux; Nobility, MM. Duc d’Aiguillon, Marquis de la Coste, D’An- 
dre, D’Eymar, Comte de Caste!lane, De Burle; Third Estate, MM. Pison du 
Galland, Vigron, Arnoult, Mounier, Rabaut de Saint-Etienne, Blancard, Le 
Chapelier, Target, Populus, Marquis de Rostaing, Reubell, Laborde de 
Mereville. 
50 Duquesnoy, I, 130. 
51 Procés-verbal, No. 7, 17; Point du jour, I, 51. 
8 Boullé, Documents inéd.ts, Revue de la révolution, XIII, 76; Point du 
jour, 1, 50; Procés-verbal, No. 7, 16; Courrier de Provence, Leitre XIII, 13; 
Assemblée nationale, 1, 299; Biauzat, II, 141; Duquesnoy, I, 130; Jallet, 103. 
The last named source gives the number as ‘‘ douze’”’ which is evidently a 
mistake. 
53 Procés-verbal, No. 7, 16-17. 
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