Infiiwnce of the Breton Deputation 71 



Cliapelieres of Kennes assured the assembly that Bretagne 

 was in the most perfect tranquillity; that there was no 

 necessity for sending a jiroclamation there, and that the 

 one proposed contained expressions more calculated to 

 cause an uprising of the people than to produce the oppo- 

 site effect. Glezen, also of Tfennes, likewise asked why 

 they should speak of disorders to provinces which en- 

 joyed perfect peace, and how could they censure men who 

 had taken up arms in defense of liberty? Delaville Le 

 Roulx wished the middle class to form a militia, but re- 

 jected the rest of the motion of Lally-Tollendal. Eobes- 

 pierre, member of the Breton Club, said: "It (the ad- 

 dress) presents in the first place a disposition against 

 those who have defended liberty. But is there anything 

 more legitimate than to rise against a horrible conspiracy 

 for the destruction of the nation? . . . Let us do noth- 

 ing with precipitation; who has told us that the enemies 

 of the state have tired of intrigue?"^ 



Tabled on the 20th, the motion, much softened in ex- 

 pression, was renewed by Lally-Tollendal on the 23d, and 

 sent to the committee of redaction. As finally passed, 

 the provision for a militia was omitted and the assembly, 

 instead of assuming a commanding tone and vigorously 

 condemning the disorders, weakly stated the evil effects 

 of lawlessness." 



At the same time that the deputies of Bretagne showed 

 themselves unwilling to see checked the fury everywhere 

 directed against the Ancient Regime, an opportunity pre- 

 sented itself for reconciliation with the more moderate 

 portion of the Nobility of their province. The electoral 

 assembly of that order had been a stormy one, in which 

 the voices of the moderate members had been drowned 



^ Point du Jour, I, No. XXVIII, pp. 241-243. 



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