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the two sessions of the tiers-etat held on June 16, 1789, given by 

 Hardy in his journal. Hardy was present at the meetings. 



M. Ch. Le Teo has, in vol. XXXVI, 385-95, an article entitled 

 Le club breton et les origines du club des Jacobins in which he 

 gives short extracts from the correspondence of deputies. 



Recit des seances des deputes des communes, depuis le 5 mai, 

 ij8g, jusqu'au 12 juin suivant, epoque a laquelle le redaction des 

 proccs-verbaux a commence. IJ2 pp. 1 On December 10, 1789, 

 the national assembly appointed three commissioners, Salomon, 

 Camus, and Emmery, to draw up this account. They did so and 

 signed their names to it. Camus was on June 12 chosen secre- 

 tary, and he and the other two men were repeatedly chosen for 

 secretary purposes. Camus was even made superintendent of 

 the newly created archives. These men either used their own 

 notes or employed notes of other deputies. Camus presided over 

 the electoral assembly of Paris for the last time on May 22, and 

 was present at Versailles only after that date. We have observed 

 that Gaultier de Biauzat wrote on May 22 that over a hundred 

 men took notes. On May 11 a motion was made that the dean's 

 assistants keep notes, and on May 20 that a comite de redaction 

 be chosen to draw up an account of the sessions and edit it in 

 order to be sent to the people. It is seen, therefore, that the dep- 

 uties were conscious of the importance of taking notes from the 

 very first, and that it must have been a comparatively easy task 

 to prepare the Recit. Some cures kept journals and the nobles 

 kept proccs-verbaux of their sessions. M. A. Brette enumerates 

 this material in the Avertissement of his volume, Les Constitu- 

 ants (Paris, 1897), and M. Maurice Tourneux in the first volume 

 of his Bibliographic de I'histoire de Paris pendant la revolution 

 franqaise, Paris, 1890, p. 78. 



Courrier de Provence by Mirabeau, preceded by his two num- 

 bers of Etats- gene ran x and nineteen Lettres du comtc dc Mirabeau 

 a ses commettants , three hundred and fifty numbers. 17 vols., in 

 8°, appeared between May 4, 1789, and September 30, 1791. 



Journal des etats- generaux by Le Hodey de Saultchevreuil. I 



X I have used M. Aulard's edition of the Recit published in 1895 by the 

 Societe de I'histoire de la revolution frangaise. 



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