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of the majority on June 24. At the opening of the session,! 
La Roche-Negly, prior of Saint-Honoré of Blois, and M. Cha- 
bault, curé of the parish of: Saint-Victor, both deputies of the 
bailliage of Blois, submitted their credentials and took their 
places among the clergy. M. Veytard, curé de Saint-Gervais 
and deputy from the city of Paris, was the third clerical repre- 
sentative to join and pass in his credentials.? 
Besides these clergy, two nobles cast in their lot with the 
minority of their order. The Count of Pardieu, deputy from 
the bailliage of Saint-Quentin, who had submitted a declaration 
to the chamber of the nobility, June 25, had made a flying trip, 
covering the distance to Quentin and back within three days, 
that he might have the approval of his constituency through 
new instructions for the step that he desired to take.2 In a 
speech to the assembly, he stated that despite the dictates of 
his conscience, which urged union, he never would have taken 
the step had he not secured the permission of his constituents. 
He expressed his delight at witnessing the partial union of the 
national representatives, but continued: ‘It is with the most 
lively joy that I reflect that soon all the orders, animated by 
the same desire and united by the same sentiments, will hold 
only the same view. It is this time that every patriotic citizen 
awaits with the greatest impatience, as the sole means of giving 
the king the most tender marks of our love and of paying to the 
nation the tribute which it has the right to expect from us.’’4 
The Marquis de Bourran, deputy of Agen, who accompanied 
1 Procés-verbal, No. 9, 1; Point du jour, I, 61. Both note that the session 
opened at ten o’clock, an hour later than usual. 
2 Procés-verbal, No. 9, 1. 
8 Ibid.; Point du jour, 1, 61; Assemblée nationale, I, 255-256, says: ‘‘ Trois 
gentilshommes se sont présentés.’’ There were three clergy, but only two 
nobles. This account does not mention any clergy. Duquesnoy, I, 14; 
Courrier de Provence, Lettre XIV, 4. Both of these tell of the Count of Par- 
dieu’s flying trip to secure new instructions. Procés-verbal . . . dela noblesse, 
271; Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, I, 121; Boullé, Docs. inédits, 
Revue: de la rév., XIV, 27. Boullé says: ‘‘ Deux gentilshommes et deux 
ecclésiastiques.” 
4 Procés-verbal, No. 9, 2-3. 
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