The First Revolutionary Step 85. 



parlcmcntaire draws its material for the sessions of the three 

 orders from the Moniteur. It has for our subject, therefore, not 

 the slightest value. 1 



Brette, Armand: Rccucil de documents relatifs a la convoca- 

 tion des etats-generaux de 1789. 2 vols. Paris, 1894. 



Aulard, F. A.: La societe des jacobins. Recucil de documents 

 pour I'histoire du club des jacobins de Paris. 6 vols. Paris,. 

 1889-97. 



Proces-verbal des seances des deputes des communes, depuis le 

 12 juin 1789 jttsqu'au 17 juin, jour de la constitution en assem- 

 blee nationale. 104 pp. 



Proces-verbal de I'assemblee nationale. 75 vols., in 8°. Paris,. 

 1789-91. Baudouin. These two sources belong together. The 

 second is a continuation of the first and dates from June 17, 1789. 

 The first is commonly bound in with the first volume of the sec- 

 ond. The Proces-verbaux consist of minutes taken and material 

 arranged by the secretaries of the assembly. They are of the 

 greatest value because they were read to the assembly from ses- 

 sion to session for the sake of accuracy. For our period Camus 

 and Pison du Galand were the secretaries. 2 



Proces-verbal des conferences sur la verification des pouvoirs. 

 216 pp. Target, one of the commissioners of the tiers-etat, pre- 

 pared the larger part of the work. On June 4, Hebert was chosen 

 official secretary (p. 153). The Marquis de Bouthillier objected 

 (p. 171), on the part of the nobles, to the draft of Target on the 

 ground that the arguments of the commissioners of the third 



two volumes, that in the second volume the original numbers covering the 

 period from January 1 to July 1, 1790, were simply reprinted. 



J See my study, The Moniteur and Other Sources, Graduate Bulletin, 

 the University of Nebraska, March, 1902, 17-18. The Histoire parlemen- 

 taire, I, 384-474, omits entirely the accounts of the sessions of the third' 

 estate on May 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 22, 25, and June 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, 11. 

 13, 14, and of the conferences of the commissioners. Almost all of the 

 sessions of the clergy and of the nobles are left similarly unmentioned. 

 The compilers wished to abridge the Moniteur. and so they omitted either 

 the accounts of whole sessions or reproduced them only in part by omit- 

 ting paragraphs. Not only is very important material left out and rela- 

 tively unimportant matter given, but the context is thus destroyed. The 

 substance of the accounts omitted is seldom given and then only by brief 

 paragraphs. 



2 See my Fourth of August, 1789, 1-5, 24-26. 



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