8 Charles Kuhlmami 



As a result of this arrangemeut, we have to-day the orig- 

 inal letters of Legendre and Moyot (No. 1 below), the 

 inexact copies of them made by the above named bureau, 

 and a printed bulletin (No. 2 below) based upon this cor- 

 respondence, and also upon other sources of information, 

 as is shown by the contents of the bulletins. But of the 

 correspondence of the bureau with the country districts 

 and of any letters of private individuals which may have 

 been received hj the bureau, no trace has been found. At 

 Kennes a similar bureau was established, but, unfortu- 

 nately, of this most important deputation we have neither 

 the original letters nor the copies made of them by the 

 bureau. We are confined to a printed bulletin "avowed" 

 by the bureau, in which, if the example of the bureau at 

 Brest was follovved, the most intimate opinions of the 

 deputies were suppressed. 



In the National Library at Paris are preserved the 

 above-named bulletins of Rennes and Brest, besides many 

 pamphlets, resolutions, proces-verhanx of meetings, includ- 

 ing some of the electoral assemblies and a number of the 

 cahicrs of 1789. In the Proces-verhaux of the electoral as- 

 semblies and the caJiiers now in the National Archives, 

 aside from the formal mandates, considerable information 

 is found relative to the role of the deputies in the province 

 and the sjiirit which ruled in the electoral assemblies of 

 which they were in nearly every case members. 



Following is a classified list of the principal documents 

 and Avorks consulted. 



I. Strictly contemporaneous evidence. 



1. Correspondance de Legendre et Moyot, deputes a 

 V asscmhlee dcs Etats Generaux et a V Assemhlee nation- 

 ale. Composed of the original letters of Legendre and 

 Moyot in the archives of Brest, containing 395 letters be- 

 ginning April 28, 1789, and ending December 30, 1791. 



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