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Maury, reception in the assembly — are not to be despised as 

 cumulative evidence in the treatment of the early history of the 

 assembly. On page y2, the history of the States General begins 

 and Bailly follows here the Recit and the Proccs-vcrbal des 

 conferences as conscientiously as he had followed the Proces- 

 verbal of the electors of Paris and uses these records in much 

 the same way, condensing or employing the very language of 

 the source.^ For the period up to June 12, when the Proces- 

 verbal de I'asseniblee des communes began (I, p. 137), besides 

 the two sources already mentioned, Bailly made use of the Cour- 

 rier de Provence twice,^ the Journal de Versailles twice,^ and the 

 Journal de Paris three times.* His own additions are of some 

 value, consisting, besides the sentences and paragraphs scattered 

 here and there, of an account of his election as dean on June 3 

 (I, pp. 88, 89) ; description of the attempt to call upon the king 

 on the same and following days (I, pp. 91, 92, 93, 94, 102, 103,. 

 104, 105, 106, 140, 143) ; of the effort made by Bailly to intro- 

 duce order into the deliberations of the assembly (I, pp. 100^ 

 loi), and of the services at Notre Dame on June 11 (I, pp. 136, 



137)- 



On June 12, the Proccs-verbal begins and Bailly follows it 

 closely,^ making use, also, in the period up to July 15. of the 

 Courrier de Provence seven times,*' the Journal de l^ersaiUes 



^ The account of the session of May 25 fills nearly two pages in the Rhit; 

 Bailly gives the substance of it in less than half a page. The Prods-verbal 

 devotes twenty-three pages to the account of the first sessions of the commis- 

 sioners selected to consider the matter of how the credentials should be 

 verified ; Bailly disposes of it in three pages. Bailly's account of the ses- 

 sion of May 26 is a skilful condensation and combination of the Prods- 

 verbal of the conference of the 25th of May and the Rkcit of the 26th. The 

 account of the session of the 27th in the Mtmoires is pieced together from 

 extracts taken literally from the Rkcit. 



^Memoires de Bailly, I, pp. 79, 110, 



^Ibid., I, pp. 84, 135. 



^Ibid., I. pp.43, 87, 98. 



*The account of the session of the 12th of June is taken from the Recit 

 for the first part of the day and from the Procl'S-verbal — that began on this 

 day — for the last part. A comparison of the Prods-verbal for June 22 (I, 

 No. 1), with the Mhiwires (I, pp. 199-202) will furnish a good example of 

 Bailly's dependence upon his source. 



^Mhnoires de Bailly, I, pp. 147, 212, 278, 284, 307, 315, 333. 



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