TO Charles Kulilmann 



of Bretagne with better hopes than they had as yet held. 

 The people were in power; the "Cabal," disheartened, was 

 driven from the councils of the king, with whom, as they 

 believed, they could now proceed to the important work 

 of making a constitution.^ But the more conservative 

 deputies did not view the general disintegration with the 

 same calmness. Alarmed by the disorders which followed 

 the insurrection of Paris, the assembly began to feel the 

 necessity of repressive measures, or at least of calling the 

 attention of the people to the necessity of the reestablish- 

 ment of order. Against this tendency the Breton element 

 now directed its efforts. On July 20 Lally-Toliendal pro- 

 posed an address in which, after stating the situation of 

 the assemblj^, the dangers of disorders, he invited the peo- 

 ple to peace, respect for the laws, confidence in their rep- 

 resentatives, and fidelity to their sovereign, and declared 

 that whoever failed in these points should be regarded as 

 a bad citizen. He wished at the same time to authorize 

 the municipalities to organize militia.- This motion the 

 Breton deputies thought too reactionary. Fermont des 



^TTie deputies of Saint-Brieuc wrote on July 19: "La cabale aris- 

 tocrate . . . est absolumeut culbute. La nation triomphe, et nous 

 Eommes actuellement certains de former une constitution qui portera 

 sur des fondements inebranlables. On assure que madame, soeur du 

 roi, et mesdames tantes de Sa Majeste, qui' etaient les ames de ce 

 complot abominable qui a pense perdre la France, sont parties et re- 

 tirees dans un convent. Toute la clique Polignac a quitte la cour, et 

 le roi n'est, quant a present, entoure que d'honnetes gens. . . . 

 On pense que les ministres renvoyes ne seront remplaces que sur lin- 

 dication qui en sera faite par le Restaurateur de la France." Societe 

 d'Eniulation, XXVI, p. 238. 



This same feeling of relief from the previous heavy strain was ex- 

 pressed by Glezen on July 24 in addressing the assembly in behalf of 

 the deputation of Bretagne: "Agites tour-a-tour par I'espoir et la 

 crainte, nous I'eussions attendue (the decision of the assembly on the 

 validity of the deputation) avec plus d'ardeur encore et de solicitude. 

 Vous n'avez plus, Messieurs, de dangers a courir; votre patriotisme, 

 votre courage les ont dissipes. Vous avez triomphe, par une con- 

 stance inebranlable, de tons les obstacles qui s'opposaient au bien 

 public. La constitution est censee faite." Proccs-verhal, II, No. 31. 



-Point du Jour, I, No. XXVIII, p. 240. Vourrier de Provence, I, pp. 

 450, 451. 



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