i6 Laura B. Pfeiffer 



manifested the greatest sympathy for the Due de Brissac when 

 that officer took leave of him to go to Orleans.^^ 



On the morning of ]\Iay 30, Petion again reported the situation 

 in Paris as tranquil.-" At the evening session, Louvet asked that 

 all the sections of Paris be declared permanent, saying "It is 

 necessary to take wise precautions that we may not one day be 

 reduced to the frightful necessity of causing the blood of rebels 

 to flow in the streets."-' On May 31, Petion reported that tran- 

 quility was perfectly established in Paris and in the evening the 

 assembly closed its permanent session.-^ 



Such was the situation when the assembly passed its third 

 decree. This provided for a camp of 20,000 fcdcres, to be assem- 

 bled on June 14 near Paris. The proposition was made to the 

 assembly June 4 by Servan, without previous consultation, it is 

 said, either with his colleagues or with the king.-® Servan urged 

 in his proposition that the act was necessary to establish tran- 

 quillity in the country. The decree itself states that its purpose is 

 to draw more closely the bonds of fraternity between the depart- 

 ments of France. The discussions in the assembly showed that 

 the object of that body was to insure public security. The allies 

 were approaching from without and enemies of the constitution 

 were plotting from within. Paris and the assembly must have 

 protection.^'' 



^Memoires de Ferricres, III, 76; Mcmoires dc Madame Cainpau, II, 

 202, 204; Revolutions de Paris, XII, 430, letter of D'Hervilly, a former 

 commandant of the king's guard; Chaumette in his Mcmoires (5) states 

 that the king issued a proclamation the next day calumniating the assembly 

 and praising the zealous partisans in the guard, but Aulard in a note says 

 he was not able to find this proclamation. 



"^Moniteur, XII, 531. 



^Momteur, XII, 536; Revolutions de Paris, XII, 421. 



^Moniteur, XII, 536; Revolutions de Paris, XII, 421, 424; Journal des 

 debats et dccrcts. No. 246, p. 493. 



'^Moniteur, XII, 570; Mcmoires de Dumouriez, II, 267; Petion in an 

 article entitled. Avis d mes concitoyens, published in Annales patriotiques 

 June 20, 1792, says that although he and Servan were closely associated at 

 this time, Servan had not communicated his project to him. 



^"Moniteur, XII, 570-96; Blanc-Gilli (Lcttre d'un depute de I'assemblee 



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