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dentials. "The dean, M. Bailly, having with much difficulty ob- 

 tained silence, I delivered the following discourse." M. Jallet 

 spoke in favor of common deliberation. "We come, gentlemen," 

 he said, 1 "led by the torch of reason, urged by love for the public 

 welfare, to unite ourselves with you, our fellow citizens and 

 brothers. We hasten to respond to the call of our fatherland, 

 which urges us to establish between the orders peace and good 

 will, upon which depends the success of the states general and 

 the safety of the state. May this course be received, by the 

 chamber of commons, in the same spirit that is influencing us ! 

 May this course, and this spirit, be generally imitated ! May 

 this, as a result, win for us the esteem of the entire French people." 

 This speech was again followed by loud applause. 2 An established 

 rule prohibiting applause was on this occasion conspicuously vio- 

 lated. Some deputies and some spectators, especially the women, 

 were moved to tears. A member of the commons, Biauzat, wrote: 

 "Although I pride myself on being a rigorist, I clapped my hands 

 with a violence which makes plain to me that the heart adds force 

 to our undertaking. Some persons have at this moment felt the 

 sweetness of tears." 



The deputies and the partisans of the third estate had reason 

 to be elated. A first victory had been won, the barriers between 

 the orders broken. These three cures had set the example for 

 their companions. Their hearty reception on the part of the 

 commons was the best argument that could be found to convince 

 the other cures that they would not only be safe, but that they 

 were highly regarded, and that the best project of conciliation 

 was that all the deputies of the three orders constitute themselves 

 in one assembly. 3 The step found imitators, for even on the next 

 day, June 14, six other cures presented themselves with their cre- 



1 Proces-verbal, I, 28-29; Biauzat, II, 110; Journal des etats-generaux, 

 I, 74, 75. 



2 Biauzat, II, 110. See also note. Duquesnoy, I, 91: "Ces cures ont ete 

 applaudis avec transport. Ces trois hommes ont surement une grande 

 force de caractere." Revue de la revolution, XII, Documents inedits, 57, 

 58. 



3 Duquesnoy, I, 91; Journal des etats-generaux, I, 75. One of the cures 

 was even asked to assist in the verification of credentials. 



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