80 Carl Christophelsmeier 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



The principal sources of information upon the history of the 

 sessions of the three orders of the states general and of the con- 

 ferences of the commissioners are the minutes, letters of the 

 deputies, and newspapers. Gaultier de Biauzat wrote, as early 

 as May 22, 1789, that there were more than a hundred men in 

 the assembly of the third estate who took notes. These notes 

 were taken for personal reasons as well as for use in the prepara- 

 tion of the accounts sent by some of the deputies to their friends 

 and constituents. A part of this most valuable literature was 

 published during the last generation. A large bulk of it still lies 

 buried in private and provincial archives. Some of the proces- 

 verbaux and newspapers are more or less easily accessible. I 

 have studied critically most of the material used in the prep- 

 aration of this monograph and have published the results in an 

 article entitled The Fourth of August, 1789, which appeared in 

 the University Studies of the University of Nebraska (vol. VI, 

 no. 4, October, 1906). The reader is referred to this publication 

 for the study of the sources. I shall enumerate here only the 

 material used for this monograph. Where, however, the mate- 

 rial gives information on the period covered by the present work 

 and has not been discussed in the previous publication, critical 

 notes have been added. 



Journal d'Adrien Dnqucsnoy, depute du tiers-etat de Bar le- 

 Duc, sur I'asseinblcc constituante. 3 mai 1789 — 3 avril 1790. 

 Publie pour la societe d'histoire contemporaine, par Robert de 

 Crevecoeur. 2 vols. Paris, 1894. 



Mege, Francisque : Gaultier de Biauzat, depute du tiers-etat 

 aux ctats-gencraux de 1789. Sa vie et sa correspondance. 2 vols. 

 Paris, 1890. 



Albert Mace has published in the Documents inedits of the 

 Revue de la revolution a number of letters of Jean-Pierre Boulle. 

 The letters were written to his constituents of the tiers-etat of 

 the senechaussce de Ploermel and addressed to the municipal offi- 

 cers of Pontivy. Those published cover the period from May I 

 to October 30, 1789. They are found in volumes X, 161-71 ; XI, 



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