36 Charles Kuhlmann 



nave, Bailly/ Petion, Volney, Gregoire, Robespierre, 

 Bouclie, Charles aud Alexandre Lameth, La Revelliere- 

 Lepeaux, Diibois-Crance, the Marquis de Lacoste, and the 

 Duke d'Aiguillon.2 Regarding the number who were usu- 

 ally present, we have but very little evidence. Boulle 

 wrote on June 10th that the evening before "all the bet- 

 ter citizens from all the provinces were assembled tliere."^ 

 Droz says^ that on the evening ^^receding the Jen de 

 Pan me episode the Duke d'Aiguillon presided over a 

 meeting of about 150, while the 22d of June, according 

 to Gregoire, only 12 to 15 were present.^ An anonymous 



Constances dont il embrasse le detail." This outburst was occasioned 

 by the manner in which Mirabeau had expressed himself in his jour- 

 nal, for whicli several of the deputies of Bretagne had subscribed. 

 On June 2, they complain of the Gazette de Leycle "qui nous a calom- 

 nieusement raye sous la banniere et dans la phalanx de M. le Comte 

 de Mirabeau." Le Roulx, in a letter of May 15, expresses similar 

 sentiments. 



Professor Alfred Stern has kindly called my attention to an anony- 

 mous work he discovered in the city library of Zurich, Luzifer Oder 

 gereinigte Beilrdge zur Geschichte der franzosischen Revolution. 

 Erster Theil. 1191. In this work occurs the following passage: 

 "Mirabeau suchte ihn auf (Le Chapelier, when he arrived at Versailles 

 as deputy of the States General), denn Chapelier hatte sich durch 

 seine freiheitseifernde Schritte mehr als ein Verhaftsdekret auf 

 den Hals geladen, und also bekannt genug gemacht um des Aufsuchens 

 werth zu sein. Man frug sich, man sondirte sich. Was ist Eure 

 Absicht? Was verlangf Ihr? Freiheit der Personen und des 

 Eigenthums, so weit sich dieselben treiben lassen, war Chapelier's 

 Antwort. Gut! das wollen wir audi, sagte Mirabeau.^' As a result of 

 this, Le Chapelier, it is said, was introduced to Adrien Du Port (and 

 presumably also to the Comite Die Port) and thus led into the in- 

 trigues of Mirabeau and others to make political capital out of tiie 

 position and wealth of the Duke of Orleans. Pp. 112-114. For this 

 anonymous work see the Zeitschrift fiir Geschichtswissenschaft. 1890, 

 in wliich Stern shows that Konrad Engelbert Oelsner was the author. 

 Also Revue historique. 1897, January-April, p. 72 ff, where a transla- 

 tion with an introductory note, by Stern, is found. Oelsner was an 

 intelligent observer who had a wide circle of acquaintances among 

 the leading men in the assembly and at Paris, but he did not arrive 

 in Paris until long after the incidents here in question. 



^Zinkeisen, Der Jakobiner-Club, I, 73. Cites Mcmoires of Bailly, 



= For these names see the extracts published by Aulard. 



^Revue de la Revolution, vol. XII, p. 49. 



*II, p. 169, note 1. 



^Memoires] I, 380. In the Mi-moires de CondorQet sur la Revolution 



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