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is shown by the following incident. Only the minority of the 

 clergy had attended mass on the morning of June 30. As one 

 of this group passed a member of the majority on entering the 

 hall, he said sarcastically, " I suppose you even regard your mass 

 as unconstitutional."^" 



Bailly tells us that not only did these newly united members 

 refuse to mingle with the assembly on June 30, but that for 

 several days they remained standing and seemed to take no part 

 in the sessions. " They stood behind me and between the sec- 

 tions of seats assigned to the clergy and the nobles. Notice of 

 this was taken by one of the deputies who came to urge me to 

 force them to be seated. To force them would have caused some 

 talk and some disorder so I thought it was necessary, as presi- 

 dent, to shut my eyes to their actions. When I passed through 

 their midst, I asked them to be seated and not to obstruct the 

 passage. In this way I won several of them and after a few 

 days all were won over."^^ 



III. 



When Bailly asked these new members on June 30 to lay their 

 credentials before the committee of verification so that they 

 might be examined that evening and a report made to the as- 

 sembly the next day,^^ they complied, but the nobles, at the same 

 time, laid on the table the protests which they had made on June 

 27 and the morning of June 30.^^ There were about fifty-five of 

 these,^* not formally addressed to the assembly, but in many it 



^^ Bulletins de I'assemhlee nationale, June 30. 

 21 Bailly, Memoires, I, 263. 



^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 271; Proces-verhal, I, No. 10, 4; Bulletins de 

 I'assemhlee nationale, June 30; Point du jour, I, 74; Bailly, Memoires, 



I, 262. 



^^Proces-verhal, I, No. 10, p. 4; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, 



II, 149; Journal de Paris, No. 183, 823 (July 2) ; Assemblee nationale, I, 

 271; Point du jour, I, 75; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 142; Bulletins de I'assem- 

 hlee nationale, June 30. 



24 Proces-verhal des seances de la chambre de I'ordre de la nohlesse, 

 304-349; Proces-verhal de I'assemhlee, I, No. 10, 4; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa 

 correspondance, II, 149. There are sixty-four protests dating from June 

 27 to July 2 recorded in the Proces-verhal of the nobles, but only fifty-six 

 were drawn up before the session of June 30. The Proces-verhal of the 



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