108 Jeanette Needham. 
voice without vote, but the chamber postponed any immediate 
action upon his request. 
Besides these matters, one of the members took occasion to 
remind the chamber that since it had been presided over by the 
Comte de Montboissier for almost six weeks,!” it would be fitting 
to take measures to thank him for his services. This suggestion 
was unanimously applauded, so the president named a deputa- 
tion to convey to the former president the gratitude of the 
assembly for his leadership. The Baron de Montboissier, the 
Duke of Havre, the Marquis de Juigne, and the Marquis de 
Clermont-Mont-St. Jean, were appointed to serve on this 
committee. Then the chamber adjourned until nine o’clock 
the following morning, June 27." 
XII 
‘The whole course of the national assembly on June 26 had 
been more or less a matter of marking time and of upholding 
its policy by inaction. Even the nobility did little more that 
day than complete the work of the previous day, and it definitely 
refused to deal with the covert challenge to its legitimacy, 
implied in the response of the national assembly to the deputa- 
tion from the nobility. The minority of the clergy, however, 
displayed more constructive activity when, in accordance with 
the order of the day, it outlined the principles of the decree 
abandoning the pecuniary privileges of the clergy as an order. 
The session of the clergy, however, was short, lasting only 
from half past nine to three.!| After the celebration of mass, 
the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld, gave a report for the depu- 
tation which had carried to the king the decree of the previous 
day respecting the first declaration of the king. The delegation 
had explained to him the sentiments that guided the assembly. 
The cardinal stated that their reference to the prospective 
renunciation of their pecuniary privileges, had been especially 
12 The Procés-verbal of the order shows that the Comte de Montboissier 
had been president until June 12 when the Duke of Luxemburg was elected. 
138 Procés-verbal . . . de la noblesse, 299. 
1 Barmond, Récit, 273. 
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