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the municipality at the Hotel de Ville to announce " to the council 

 that the citizens of the faubourgs Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marcel 

 had resolved to present, Wednesday, the 20th, to the national 

 assembly and to the king, petitions relative to the circumstances 

 and to plant a liberty tree upon the terrace of the Feuillants, in 

 memory of the oath of the tennis court. They asked that the 

 council authorize them to wear the uniforms and carry the arms 

 that they used in 1789."^° 



The council of the commune on the motion of Borie refused 

 to grant this request and passed the following decree the same 

 day : " The council having deliberated . . . and considering that 

 the law forbids all armed assemblies not a part of the legally 

 required public defense, passes to the order of the day." The 

 council ordered this decree sent to the directory of the department 

 and to the department of police and that it should be communi- 

 cated to the municipal government.^^ According to the law of 

 June 27, 1790, the work of communicating this decree to the 

 magistrates was the duty of the mayor.^- 



According to Borie the delegates when they received this answer 

 were defiant and stated haughtily that nothing could prevent them 



°** Extract from the register of the council of the commune; (Compte 

 rendu,) " Conduite tenue par M. le maire de Paris;" " Proces-verbal 

 dresse par M. Borie." The names of the men who carried the request to 

 the council of the commune are Lazowsky, captain of cannoneers of the 

 battalion Saint-Marcel, Duclos, Pavie, Lebon, Lachapelle, Lejeune, Vassori, 

 citizens of the section Quinze-Vingts, Geney, Deliens and Bertrand, citizens 

 of the section Gobelins. Lazowsky was a friend of the Duke of Liancourt. 

 He had been factory inspector before the revolution. He was also an 

 intimate friend and sometime travelling companion of Arthur Young. 

 (Travels in France). He was once a colleague of Roland, later a friend 

 and member of the Jacobins by whom according to Madame Roland 

 (Memoires, II, 193), he was almost canonized when he died in March, 

 1793. though his death was a result of debauchery. He was buried in the 

 Place du Carrousel. Michaud, Biographie universelle, XXIII, 441. 



" See the decree in an extract from the register of the council of the 

 commune, Compte rendu, 4 ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Borie." 



'^ " Rapport fait au conseil du departement par M. Gamier, Leveillard et 

 Demantort," 240. 



