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being placed in this fashion. This argument had no effect on the 

 commons and upon their still insisting that the plan should be 

 changed, De Breze communicated with the king at the chateau. 

 The outcome was that the herald announced that the king had 

 ordered that the call by bailliages should not be made. Biauzat 

 adds that De Breze's statement that the king " ordered it " an- 

 noyed the deputies of the third estate, evidence, probably, of 

 their sensitiveness to undue exercise of royal authority.-^ 



When the procession was finally formed, it was a magnificent 

 spectacle. The Mercure de France describes the order of march 

 as follows : " The clerg}^ of the two parishes, preceded by the 

 Recollets, opened the march; then followed the company of the 

 guard of the Prevote de I'Hotel, the Grand Prevot at its head. 

 The deputies of the three orders, in ceremonial garb, marched 

 in front of the dais, the third estate preceding the nobility who 

 were followed by the clergy. The king, accompanied by his 

 grand officers and by the guard du corps, and followed by the 

 royal princes and by the dukes and peers, marched immediately 

 in front of the Holy Sacrament. The grand chaplain of France 

 carried his majesty's taper. At the left of the king was the 

 queen, followed by her lady of honor who carried the train of her 

 robe, and accompanied by her chevalier d'honneur and, by her 

 first squire. The grand chaplain of the queen carried her 

 majesty's taper. . . . The Holy Sacrament was carried by the 

 Archbishop of Paris."-" 



The minister of Parma, in speaking of the events of the day, 

 says : " The crowd of people of every condition and of every 

 rank, at the procession on Monday, was immense. The sight of 

 that concourse of people assembled from the church of Notre- 

 Dame to the church of St. Louis was magnificent. The streets, 

 the windows, the roofs were crowded with spectators; heads of 



25 Biauzat, II, 22. 



^^ Mercure de France, III, 16 mai, 1789, Journal politique de Bruxelles, 

 122; Boulle, Ouverture des ctais-generaux, in Revue de la revolution, 

 Documents inedits, 166. 



Boulle agrees in general with the Mercure de France as to the order of 

 march. 



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