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partial conquest, stirred up Paris, which at once reinforced and 

 encouraged the commons in their course of constituting them- 

 selves. 1 



The roll-call of the deputation was finished on June 13. A 

 general request was made for all those who had been omitted to 

 present their credentials. 2 



The credentials and the proces-verbaux of the various elective 

 assemblies that had been received were distributed among the 

 twenty bureaus. The bureaus were instructed to meet at four 

 o'clock in the afternoon of June 13. 3 Now, since the commons 

 had commenced to organize themselves, everyone worked with 

 greatest speed, for by eight o'clock in the evening the bureaus 

 announced that they were ready to report to the general assembly. 

 The report was terminated on June 14 and the verification of 

 credentials was thus, in a general way, achieved. 4 The commons, 

 fearing they might be stopped in the work of organizing them- 

 selves, accepted almost all the credentials without raising the 

 question of their validity. A committee was to be appointed, 

 after the organization of the assembly, to examine contested cre- 

 dentials. 5 All the steps preliminary to organization had now been 

 taken and the commons were ready to constitute themselves. True, 

 with the exception of the few cures, the deputies of the clergy 

 and of the nobility had not joined them and had not presented 

 their credentials for common verification, but the commons were 

 now in a position to apply the principle that those deputies whose 

 credentials were verified in the general hall represented the na- 



'Biauzat, II, 111. Young (entry of June 13) says that the three cures 

 from Poitou "were received with a kind of madness of applause ; and this 

 evening at Paris nothing else is talked of." See also entries on June 14 

 and 15. La revolution frangaise, XXIII, 529, 532-35. 



2 Proces-verbal, I, 38-40. 



3 Proces-verbal, I, 54; Duquesnoy, I, 92; Biauzat, II, 111, 112; Revue 

 de la revolution, XII, Documents inedits, 58. 



4 Duquesnoy, I, 92: "II n'y a qu'un petit nombre de difficultes, chacun 

 ayant le hon esprit de sentir que ce n'est pas la le moment d'etre minutieux 

 et qu'il faut accelerer la marche." Proces-verbal, I, 55-83; Revue de la 

 revolution, XII, Documents inedits, 109, 110. 



5 For the verification of credentials, see the study of M. Brette, La veri- 

 fication des fouvoirs a I'assemblee nationale," in La revolution frangaise, 

 XXV, 413-36, 504-26; XXVI, 26-52. 



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