96 Jeanette Needham. 
While the discussion was going on it appears that the nobles 
already in the assembly agreed to a fraternal reception of those not 
united, following Target’s suggestion that it was fitting to send 
out four nobles to conduct their brothers in.4® At the same time, 
he is reported to have warned the assembly to prepare itself for 
the words “third estate,’ which would surely be used.*® Finally, 
the assembly did vote to receive the deputation, but under con- 
ditions proposed by Bailly.®° 
The delegation came and took seats with the nobles. Two 
dukes, three counts and a marquis composed it.*! The Duc de 
Liancourt acted as spokesman. He stated briefly that the 
nobility had commissioned them to communicate a decree passed 
in the chamber of the nobility. Apropos of this, he emphasized 
the fact that the sanction given to the first declaration of the 
king showed their desire for conciliation, and their sincere hope 
that all the orders might be brought into concord without which 
it was impossible to secure the welfare of the state, the first duty 
have seized a different point, thus, oftentimes, making the accounts supple- 
mentary. 
48 Point du jour, I, 57; Assemblée nationale, I, 242; Procés-verbal . . . dela 
noblesse, 297. The first has: ‘‘ Au milieu de cette discussion, les députés 
nobles réunis ont voté, par un mouvement fraternal, au devant de ceux de la 
noblesse non réunis.’”’ The second gives: ‘“‘M. Target représenta qu’il 
convenait a l’assemblée que quatre de MM. de la noblesse, par un mouvement 
de confraternité, allassent au-devant de la députation et les amenassent dans 
l’assemblée, comme des fréres qui conduisent leurs autres fréres.’”’ The 
Procés-verbal of the nobility gives the report of the leader, the Duc de Lian- 
court, after the return of the deputation: ‘‘ Qu’un assez grand nombre de 
députés de cette chamber, parmi lesquels il y en avoit plusieurs de ceux de 
l’Ordre de la Noblesse qui y avaient passé la veille étaient venus la recgevoir, 
mais sans proportion determinée.” 
49 Assemblée nationale, I, 242. 
50 Tbid.; Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, 1, 114; Boullé, Docs. 
inédits, Revue de la rév., XIII, 77; Procés-verbal, No. 8, 17; Biauzat, II, 
142. 
5. Procés-verbal, No. 8, 17; Procés-verbal . . . de la noblesse, 296. Comte 
de Motboissier, Comte de Laipaud, Comte de Rennel, Duc de Biron, Duc de 
Liancourt and Clermont-Mont-Saint-Jean, Marquis de La Bathie. The list 
of names has been verified by comparison with the list in Brette, Les Con- 
stituants, 198-273. 
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