Infiuencc of the B re I on Deputation 79 



the insulting address to the assembled deputation of the 

 province and asked that it be supported in the National 

 Assembly.^ When nearly the entire deputation refused, 

 their conduct became such as to greatly wound some of 

 their colleagues. The deputies of Quimj)er wrote to their 

 municipality: ''They (the deputies of Rennes) wish noth- 

 ing less than to force us to subscribe to their decree, in 

 order to print it, and to prove that they have, and are 

 made to exercise a sovereign empire over the minds of all 

 the Breton deputies; we avow that we have been greatly 

 displeased with the proposition of the Rennois. We have 

 even refused any kind of adhesion to their decree."- The 

 opposition was not so much to the principles advocated 

 as to the insult to the assembly, contained in the declara- 

 tion that all those who held views on the veto contrary 

 to those ex]^ressed in the address were enemies of the 

 country.^ The deputies of Rennes, being denied the op- 

 portunity of laying the address before the assembly,'* 

 made everyone acquainted with its contents by promptly 

 printing it.^ But the deputy of Dinan, whose munici- 

 pality had adhered to the address, placed upon the bureau 

 a copy of it which was then read, maliciously, Legendre 

 said, to the assembly.^ It Avas greeted with loud mur- 

 murs of disapprobation."^ Garat, Maury, Foucault at- 



'Bulletin de Rennes, II, No. 3. Letter signed by Le Chapelier, Gle- 

 zen, Lanjuinais, and De Fermon. 



'Journal d'etat et du citoyen. I, No. 7. 



^Letter of Legendre and Moyot, No. 51, undated, but its contents 

 show that it was written on the day the assembly discussed the ad- 

 dress of Rennes, that is, the 10th of September. MSS., Archives of 

 Brest. 



^The attempt was made by Glezen on September 5. Bulletin ^ 

 Rennes, Nos. 4 and 5, vol. II. ProcCs-verbal, IV, No. 68, p. 1. 



^Bulletin de Rennes, II, No. 5. 



* Letter of Legendre and Moyot, No. 51. 



'Ibid.: "Les secretaires dans la mention qu'ils en ont faite au- 

 jourd'hui, ont par mechancete announce que cet arrete violait sans 



285 



