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should be placed upon the same level with those of pe- 

 cuniary exemptions? For, finally, you did indeed wish to 

 disguise your motive; it is to these shameful exemptions 

 that you are so tenderly attached; it is in them that you 

 find your happiness."^ 



Glezen and Defermon, likewise closely identified with 

 the agitation in the province, ^ and secretary of the provin- 

 cial estates,^ were members of the intermediary commis- 

 sion and as such charged Avith the important correspond- 

 ence of the deputies of the Third Estate at the court."* 

 With Le Chapelier, Glezen had been on the committee of 

 four charged Avith drawing up the cahiers of the Third 

 Estate of Kennes, adopted on November 24,^ Glezen Avas 

 himself elected deputy to the Estates after their suspen- 

 sion in January.^ In the extraordinary assemblj^ of dep- 

 uties at Rennes, Avhich drcAV up, in effect, the final cahiers 

 of the order, the future deputies, Le Chapelier, Defermon, 

 Cottin, Ohaillon, Duplessis, Jary, Baco, Bougerel, Cou- 

 pard, Le Dean, and Boulle were present.^ 



In other cities of Bretagiie, the relation of the future 

 deputies to the Nobility and the reform movement Avas 

 A'ery similar. At Vitre, Hardy de le Largere had diffi- 

 culties Avitli the parliament and Avas very bitter against 

 the Nobility.^ Kervelegan and Le Dean at Quimper Avere 

 the first to oppose the parliament in the fall of 1788.^ 



^Kerviler, Recherches et notices, art. Glezen. 

 ^Ibid. Arts. Glezen and Chapelieres. 



nma. 



nbid. 



^Extraits des registres du greffe de Vhdtel de ville de Rennes. Bib. 

 Nat. Lb39/697. 



"Kerviler, art. Glezen. 



'' Resultats des deliberations tenues en Vhdtel-de-vUle de Rennes, les 

 22, 2Ji, 25, 26,et 27 decembre 17SS, etc. Bib. Nat. Lb39/1887 A. 



"Manuscript letter of Largere, Archives d'llle et Vilaine, L. 294. 



"Cherest, La chute de Vancien regime, II, 333, 334. Also Lettre de 

 M. De Goazre de Kervelegan a M. Ballais, etc. Bib. Nat. Lb39/6628, 

 a printed pamphlet of 47 pages. 



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