88 Jeanette Needham. 
primary assemblies. The commission, however, confirmed the 
reply of the minister, but, nevertheless, the obstinate electors 
had not submitted. May 23, a committee had been appointed 
to secure a fit place for the continuation of the sessions.!® Fin- 
ally, came the royal session which led directly to the action of 
June 26. The circumstances of that meeting caused the electors 
of the third estate of Paris to gather on June 25, in the Salle du 
Musée, rue Dauphiné. A few nobles desired to join them and 
were admitted. This assemblage, after having heard the report 
of the committee appointed May 23, then voted to send a 
deputation to ask again for a room in the Hétel-de-Ville, as the 
committee had already made some advances in this direction. 
Besides this, they voted to send a deputation with an address 
to the national assembly.”° 
18 Bailly, I, 235-236. No mention of this negotiation is made in the 
Procés-verbal of the electoral assembly. 
19 Procés-verba] des électeurs de Paris, I, 87. ‘Il a été arrété que I’as- 
semblée serait convoquée par bulletin envoyé 4 chaque électeur, pour le 
mercredi 7 juin prochain, dans le lieu qui serait choisi.’’ The record contains 
no account of a meeting on June 7, which would not have been ‘‘ mercredi ” 
anyway. 
20 Correspondance d'un député de la noblesse . . . avec la Marquise de Crequy, 
Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., II, 36; Young, 180; Procés-verbal des 
électeurs de Paris, 1, 88-93. Bailly (I, 234-236) confirms this. In Bulletins 
d'un agent secret, No. 51, dated June 29, 1789 (in La révolution frangaise, 
XXIV, 77), is given a similar account. In his Bulletin, No. 46 (La rév. frang., 
XXIII, 546), the same writer says there was talk, June 24, at the Palais Royal, 
of a meeting of the electors at the Salle du Musée, rue Dauphiné to invite the 
national assembly to come to Paris. He did not believe that the meeting 
would take place. In No. 51, he announced that the electors had met there 
both June 25 and 26, but that the hall was too small, so they adjourned to 
the city hall to hold their sessions. He says they proposed to establish a 
bourgeoisie militia to guard the city. Young spoke (181) of the electors’ 
meeting: ‘‘ In the assembly of electors . . . for sending a deputation to the 
National Assembly, the language that was talked . . . was nothing less than 
a revolution in the government, and the establishment of a free constitution: 
what they mean by a free constitution is easily understood—a republic.” 
The writer of the Correspondance d'un député de la noblesse . . . avec la 
marquise de Crequy, says of the meeting, on June 25: “ Hier, il a fait assembler 
le Tiers Etat ou ses créatures du Tiers Etat de Paris. Le projet est de retirer 
les pouvoirs de MM. Treilhard, Malouét, et autres, que l’on regard comme 
traitres 4 la patrie, parce qu’ils osent avoir un avis modéré et le dire.” 
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