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feated, since the assembly decided to extend it over two 

 legislatures. 



It is probable that this period saw the final dissolution 

 of the Breton Club. We have seen that previous to Sep- 

 tember IS, it had been suspended.^ Are we not to infer 

 that the disunion among the Breton deputies was the 

 cause of it? Aroused as their feelings were during the 

 first half of September, the friendly comparison of opin- 

 ions would seem to have been impossible. If such was 

 indeed tlie motive of the suspension, the dangers to which 

 the popular cause was exposed caused them once more 

 to attempt to rally about themselves those whom they con- 

 sidered the defenders of the right principles, as they had 

 done during previous crises.- Continually they saw them- 

 selves in the minority. The popular cause was being de- 

 serted by those who should be its defenders, they thought. 

 Rumors of counter-revolution and the attitude of the 

 Clergy and the Nobility in the assembly caused them the 

 greatest uneasiness.'^ But this time the cry of rally seems 

 to have failed, for on October 8 their meetings ceased en- 

 tirely for some time.^ The last trace we have of the club 

 is on September 21, and we are not certain even then that 

 the reference is not to the smaller assembly composed ex- 

 clusively of deputies of Bretagne.^ It seems even that 

 the hall they had rented for their meetings was now given 

 up, for on September 23 '^ and October 8'^ we find the Bre- 



^p. 34. 



^Le Roulx, September 18: "Leur salle est de nouveau ouverte a 

 tons les deputes quelconques, et ils esperent sauver, par cette con- 

 duite, qui est la meme qu'ils ont tenue avant et apres le 17 Juin," etc. 



'Ibid. Also letter of September 22. 



^Legendre and Moyot, October 9: "La Chambre de province qui ne 

 tient plus, s'assembla hier dans I'un des bureaux." 



°Le Roulx, September 22. 



"Legendre and Moyot, September 24: "Nous assemblames hier dans 

 I'un des bureaux." 



'Note 4, above. 



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