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have called this journal Assemble c nationale in my former study, 

 because that was actually its title from June 17, 1789, to January 

 5, 1791, when on journal logographique was added; by this name 

 it is clearly distinguished from all other journals. Journal des 

 etats-generaux is only the cover title for some of the sets. 1 No 

 number was ever issued with the title Journal des etats-generaux. 

 Four numbers, covering pp. 1-32, 33-62, 63-78, 79-102, ap- 

 peared before June 17, 1789, and they have the title Etats. The 

 first of these contains an account of the sessions of June 1 to 

 June 6. According to the editors (II, 70), it was during the first 

 part of June that the journal was started. In the same connec- 

 tion, in the number which has a partial account of the session of 

 July 18, they say that the next day an account of the sessions 

 held during the month of May would be issued. This narrative 

 of eighty pages bears the title Etats-generaux f evidently in con- 

 tradistinction to the title Assemble e nationale, which it had after 

 June 17. 



Lc point dn jour, on resultat de ce qui s'est passe la veille a 

 VAssemblee Nationale. 815 numbers. June 19, 1789, to October 

 2 or 3, 1791. 27 vols., in 8°. Paris, chez Cussac. Barere, the 

 editor of this journal, issued in 1790 a volume entitled Le point 

 du jour, on resultat de ce qui s'est passe aux etats-generaux, 

 depuis le 27 avril i/8q, jour annonce pour leur ouverture, jusqu'au 

 iy juin de la meme annee, epoque ou les communes sc sont con- 

 stitutes en assemblee nationale; par M. D.***, depute extraor- 

 dinaire. Paris, Cussac, 1790. , Disc ours preliminaire XXXV, 

 415 pp. This volume is for the most part a compilation of ex- 

 tracts taken from other sources. Much of the material is found 

 in the Lettres de Mirabeau a ses commettants, and the Proces- 

 verbal des conferences sur la verification des pouvoirs (216 pp.) 

 is, for example, bodily incorporated. In places, however, the 

 names of speakers are inserted instead of "a deputy of the com- 



*35 vols in 8°, 1789-92. The copies in the libraries of the Archives 11a- 

 tionales, Paris, listed as ADa/ 30S , of the British Museum, London, listed 

 as F. 1524 5 +, and of President White at the Cornell University library, 

 Ithaca, New York, listed as 4182 V b 1-35, have the cover title Journal des 

 etats-generaux. The set in the Bibliotlicque nationale, Paris, listed as 

 LcVi3B, has the book title Logographe. 



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