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by a beam from the railing or whether it yielded to the pressure 

 of the crowd can not be affirmed.^** 



While the passage from the Feuillants to the Tuileries was 

 being forced by one part of the crowd and while a second had re- 

 lieved the pressure by entering the garden of the Capucins, a 

 third part was awaiting, at the door of the assembly, the end of 

 the discussion on the question of admitting them. As Gaudet 

 finished his speech many members were on their feet asking for 

 recognition. Suddenly, a deputation appeared at the bar and the 

 tumult was redoubled. The president put on his hat and the 

 deputation retired. He explained to the assembly that this pre- 

 cipitate entrance was a mistake made in a moment of extreme agi- 

 tation and said he would put the question of admission to a vote. 

 Lacroix then explained that the mistake was made by an usher 

 and that when the deputation discovered its error it retired. He 

 moved that the question be put to vote and the assembly amidst 

 applause of the galleries and one side, voted to admit the deputa- 

 tion bearing the petition.^*'' It was now about two o'clock in the 

 afternoon."** 



When the column in the court of the Feuillants received per- 

 mission to march through the assembly hall, the leaders recalled 

 the crowds that had entered the garden of the Capucins and the 

 garden of the Tuileries. 



The deputation was led by Huguenin as its orator, who read 

 a long and energetic petition which had been prepared, as we have 

 seen, at the faubourg Saint-Antoine."^ The presentation of this 



"' J. J. Leroux says it was forced Ijy a beam, but the other witnesses 

 do not say how it was opened. 



^*'^ Journal de I'assemblee nationale, XXI, 310; Journal des debats et de- 

 crets, No. 267, p. 269; Moniteur, XII, 716; The Gazette de France, No. 

 86, a daily newspaper, stated, June 21, 1792, that the necessity of the cir- 

 cumstances {i. e., armed citizens at the door) was responsible for the 

 assembly's rejection of Roederer's view as well as the fact of the major- 

 ity's real feelings on the matter. 



*" Roederer, Chronique de cinquante jours, 30. 



^*' Ibid., 30. Roederer gives the name Huguenin. Azema {Revolution 

 frangaise, XXVII, 172), gives Enguenet and Lenguenet but no other 

 sources give the name of this orator. Roederer says he was a man with- 



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