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mons" or "a deputy of the nobles." If this work is used at all 

 it must be carefully compared with the strictly original source- 

 material. It makes such mistakes, for example, as to place the 

 solemn procession to the church St. Louis and the services held 

 there on May 5 instead of May 4, and the opening session of the 

 states general on May 6 instead of May 5. Similar errors are 

 found throughout the whole volume. 



Gazette nationalc, ou Le moniteur iiniversel. 1 There is in 

 the Cornell University library a complete set of the original edi- 

 tion of the Moniteur extending from January 1, 1790, to Decem- 

 ber 31, 1867, and there is another set of the original edition of the 

 Moniteur in the President White library of the Cornell Univer- 

 sity library, which covers the period from November 24, 1789, 

 to December 30, 1794. This set is a duplicate, therefore, of the 

 numbers between January 1, 1790, and December 30, 1794. And 

 the thirty-eight numbers from November 24 to December 31, 



1789, if taken with the other set, entirely complete the set. We 

 mention the fact that the original thirty-eight numbers of 1789 

 and the thirty-three numbers from January 1 to February 2, 



1790, and even two copies of the thirty-three numbers, are here 

 because they are very rare. 2 There is here also the original in- 

 troductory volume to the Moniteur prepared in 1795-96. It 

 contains the Introduction historique, the ninety-three compiled 

 numbers covering the period from May 5 to November 23, and 

 the thirty-eight revised numbers (numbers 93-131) for the period 

 "between November 24 and December 31, 1789, and the Pieces 

 justificatives. z 



Buchez, B. J. B., et Roux, P. C. : Histoire parlementaire de la 

 revolution francaise, on journal des assemblies nationales depuis 

 1789 jusqu'en 18 15. 40 vols. Paris, 1834-38. The Histoire 



1 The edition of Gallois : Reimpression de I'ancien moniteur depuis la 

 reunion des etats-gencraux jusqu'au consulat (Mai 1789 — November 1799), 

 avee des notes par M. Leonard Gallois (31 vols., Paris, 1840-47), is more 

 generally accessible than the original folio edition. 



2 Tourneux says in his Bibliographie, II, pp. 556 and 789, that he knows 

 of only four sets of these numbers. 



3 1 have described this volume in The Fourth of August, 1789, pp. 16-39. 

 I am inclined to think that if the editors of the Moniteur actually carried 

 ■out the plan they announced in their paper of October 30, 1795, of printing 



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