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ties formed the necessary nucleus which, as occasion 

 seemed to demand, threw open its hall to the deputies of 

 the other provinces. That the club did not possess an 

 independent and permanent organization is evident from 

 the manner in which Le Koulx and Boulle spoke of it. 

 The former wrote on September 18: ''Such a revolution 

 has taken place as to strike the deputies of Bretagne. 

 Their hall is again open to all deputies whomsoever, and 

 they hope by this conduct, which is the same as that which 

 they held before and after the 17th of June, to save the 

 country from a cabal, alas, too evident." On December 18, 

 Boulle wrote: "You Avill remember that in principle the 

 deputation of Bretagne formed at Versailles a comit6 par- 

 ticulier'' (i. e., a committee composed of deputies of Bre- 

 tagne. It is the same term used by Le Roulx, on April 

 30, to distinguish the original assembly of the Breton 

 deputies from the larger one which had just been formed 

 for all the deputies) to which joined themselves under 

 difficult circumstances all the friends of liberty. . . . 

 The title, Comite de Bretagne, has just been changed to 

 Societe de la Revolution, which is to take a regular form 

 by means of statutes which are being prepared."^ Evi- 

 dently, then, the club had for some time preceding the 18th 

 of September suspended its meetings. It was only "under 

 difficult circumstances" that "all the friends of liberty" 

 joined themselves to the Comite particuUer, and it was 

 only in December that this Comite de Bretagne was to be 

 given a "regular form." 



What contemporaries later called the "Breton Club" 

 thus appears from the strictly contemporaneous records 

 left by those most intimately connected with it, as com- 

 posed of merely an irregular series of meetings attended 



'Kerviler, Recherclies et nolices, art. Boulle. 



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