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the assembly, but it should act wisely. He thought the assembly 

 should remain sitting until the king was at liberty and that it 

 should constantly keep in communication with him through depu- 

 tations sent to the chateau. Charlier asked that twenty-four more 

 members be added to the deputation and Lacroix asked that all 

 deliberations be suspended until the deputation returned. Ducos 

 thereujjon announced the arrival of the deputation and asked that 

 no action be taken until its report had been heard. 



Immediately Granet de Toulon entered the hall and, as a member 

 of the first deputation sent to the chateau, reported what he had 

 seen and heard there. His deputation had arrived just after the 

 appearance of the mayor and remained with the king until he 

 withdrew to his apartments. At the close of his report, Lacroix 

 proposed, as an amendment to Charlier's motion, that a new 

 deputation be sent to the chateau every half hour so that the 

 assembly might be constantly informed of the state of things at 

 the Tuileries. This proposition was unanimously adopted and 

 after some objections as to how the members should be named, 

 the second deputation was sent to the king.-^' 



Arbogast, one of the deputies who went to the chateau when 

 the assembly adjourned at half past three o'clock, next reported 

 what he had seen at the apartments of the king. He said that 

 twenty-four deputies were not enough and proposed that another 

 deputation of twelve members be sent to remain with the prince 

 royal and the ladies of the court. This proposition was supported 

 by members of the Right who said the assembly was responsible 

 to the entire nation for the safety of the prince. This caused a 

 tumult and on a vote the motion was rejected.-^* 



^"'In this account of the assembly the Journal des debats et decrets and 

 the Journal de I'assemhlee nationale are full and agree on the facts I have 

 given. The Moniteur is less full, giving only the speeches of Dumas and 

 Turgan (XII, 718). The Annales patriotiques et litteraires de la France 

 gives also a brief account of the session. It mentions more incidents than 

 the Moniteur and gives short reports of the speeches of Thuriot, Beugnot 

 and Granet de Toulon (CLXXIV, 763). 



"' Here the Moniteur and Journal de I'assemblee nationale agree. The 

 Journal des debats et decrets does not mention the women of the court. 



