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ton Committee assembled in a bureau of the assembly. 

 But whether or not the club did in fact cease to exist to- 

 ward the close of September, its great role as a nucleus in 

 the assembly, giving- definiteness and decision to its ac- 

 tion, was finished, its last great known act being the two 

 famous decrees of August 4. As a strictly provincial body, 

 the Breton Committee continued to exist probably until 

 the close of the assembly,^ and from November, 1789, to 

 the middle of March, 1790, was very actively occupied 

 with the division of the province into departments and 

 districts, the continuation of the taxes in Bretagiie, and 

 the question of the treatment of the chamber of vacation 

 of the parliament of Bretagne,^ 



The events of the 5th and 6th of October made a pro- 

 found impression upon the deputies of Bretagne. If, as 

 Mounier asserts, they had in June wished to transport 

 the National Assembly to Paris to place it under the pro- 

 tection of the people, these events had caused a change in 

 their attitude showing that they had now begun to fear 

 Paris. In the same letter in which Legendre and Moyot 

 despair of the safety of France unless the assembly were 

 freed from the influence of the mob, they announce that 

 in a meeting of the deputies of the province two-thirds 

 had been against the transference of the assembly to Paris, 

 and that a resolution had been introduced to oppose it; 

 "but," they say, "they ended by taking counsel from cir- 

 cumstances and from the necessity of advancing as far 

 as possible the welfare of France."^ 



^In a letter of Kervelegan, November 15, 1790, it is represented as 

 asking the "Commissaires de la salle" to assign one of the tribunes 

 to Freron, of the Orateur du Peuple. Archhws Nationales, carton A_J ^, 



-For this period, the evidence concerning the Breton Committee is 

 more complete than for the whole preceding period. Bulletin de Brest, 

 Bulletin de Rennes, but especially the letters of Legendre and Moyot 

 and of Le Roulx. 



^Legendre and Moyot, October 9. See also Le Roulx's letter of the 

 same date. 



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