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which the public has promptly judged as they ought to 

 be. It regards with pleasure the princes who have not 

 signed this memoire."^ This mission proved a veritable 

 political school for those who were charged with it, for 

 while they came into contact with the men leading in the 

 agitation in other parts of France, they were at the same 

 time observing the work of the Assembly of Notables, the 

 position of the parliament, and learning of the hearty 

 manner in Avhich Paris approved of the radical action 

 Bretagne was taking at the moment.- Of this they were 

 themselves quite conscious, for just before the opening of 

 the estates of the province they sent, in the name of "The 

 dei>uties of the Third Estate of Bretagne at the Court," 

 a list of the demands they thought the order should adopt, 

 as a whole, justifying this presumptuous step by saying, 

 "You ought to do us the justice to think that this proposi- 

 tion is inspired by the special knowledge we should pos- 

 sess of the means to be employed, and which are indicated 

 to us by enlightened and well-intentioned men."^ 



Just how long this sort of revolutionarj^ committee re- 

 mained at Paris, or the exact number of those who at one 

 time or another formed part of it, it is impossible to de- 

 termine. After the estates of the province opened, the 

 Third Estate as a whole sent deputies to represent its 

 interests at the court. Of the future deputies to the 

 States General, besides the five from Nantes already men- 

 tioned, Kervelegan, Le Dean, Le Boulx, Le Chapelier, La 

 Chapelle, Coupard, Boulle, and Champeaux-Palasne were 

 thus sent upon one errand or another.'' It is more thau 



^No. 14. 

 'Ibid. 



^See the pamphlet, Charges (t donner a MM. les deputes du Tiers 

 ft, la prochaine asseviblce des etats. Bib. Nat. Lk2/528. 



'Kerviler, Recherches et notices. See the names in question. 



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