Influence of the Breton Depatation 25 



Kerangal of the senechaussee of Lesneven, while very 

 active himself, had made his house the rendezvous of the 

 local refonn committee and the militia organized in sup- 

 port of the Third Estate.^ Nearly all the deputies were 

 men of considerable experience in public affairs. Seven 

 at least had been mayors of cities, six had held the office 

 of senechal, five that of procureur. Nine had been dep- 

 uties to the provincial assembly (principally to the last 

 one) and eiglit had been appointed on the intermediary 

 commission, February 14, 1789.^ Fifteen were avocats 

 who as a body had been active in political agitations since 

 the middle of the century, or even earlier.^ In the elec- 

 tions in April, they were again very prominent. A ma- 

 jority were delegates to the electoral assemblies in which 

 ten of them were chosen on the committees on cahiers, 

 namely, Boulle, Bourgerel, Chaillon, Corbion, Duplessis, 

 Legendre, Lanjuinais, Morhery, Pellerin, and Thegadout.^ 

 Ker\iler states that the important cahiers of Rennes were 

 almost entirely the work of Lanjuinais.^ 



II 



EFFECT OF THE PROVINCIAL REVOLUTION UPON THE ATTITUDE 

 AND FUTURE ACTION OF THE DEPUTIES 



The effect upon the Breton deputies of the events above 

 narrated was profound. Contemporaries usually ascribe 

 their uuitv in the States General to the effect of their club. 



'Kerviler, art. Kerangal. 



= These facts were in large part gathered from the work of Ker- 

 viler. TTie rest were found in the resolutions, proccs-verbaux, and 

 cahiers of the period, which it is not possible to cite in detail. 



'See Rjcquain, U esprit rcvolutionnaire avant le Revolution. P<f^ 

 Sim. 



*The proccs-verbaux of the electoral assemblies preserved in the 

 Archives Nationales. 



'^Kerviler, art. Lanjuinais. 



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