20 Ethel Lee Hozvie 



supported by Le Grand, said that if protests were made the 

 decrees of the assembly were weakened.®' Several suggestions 

 were made regarding the action which should be taken by the 

 assembly. Petion de Villeneuve and Pison du Galland said they 

 thought the protests should be treated as the protests of indi- 

 viduals.*® Petion de Villeneuve added that individuals had the 

 right to protest, but that the assembly could not receive these 

 protests.®^ Pison du Galland thought a precedent was found in 

 the action taken on June 30 when the protests of the nobles had 

 been presented.**" Mounier said that the assembly should 

 officially recognize the declarations, but not the protests. " Dec- 

 larations are made to quiet the conscience and in justification of 

 constituents, but protests should not be received, even if they are 

 not to be examined. "^^ This position differed from that of 

 Clermont-Tonnerre who advised the assembly to refuse the pro- 

 tests and receive the declarations, but to make no record of 

 them.^^ Bailly saw that the debate was being unduly prolonged 

 and announced that there was no more time for discussion. ^^ La 

 Borde, the Prince de Poix and Demeunier then called for the 

 order of the day.^* The assembly voted to recognize the protests 

 only as individual and to consider them after the verification of 



^"^ Point du jour, I, 94; Assemhlee nationalc, I, 313. 



^^ Point du jour, I, 93, 94; Bulletins dc VasscmhUc nationalc, July 2; 

 Assemblee nationalc, I, 310. 



89 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 155 ; Point du jour, I, 92. 



^'^ Point du jour, I, 94; Courrier de Provence, 15th letter, 10; Assem- 

 blee nationalc, I, 313. 



^"^ Point du jour, I, 94; Asscmhlcc nationalc, I, 313. 



92 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 155; Point du jour, I, 93; Bulletins de I'asscm- 

 blee nationalc, July 3 ; Assemblee nationalc, I, 312. 



93 Assetnblec nationalc, I, 313. 



^•^ Courrier de Provence, I, 15th letter, 11 ; Point du jour, I, 94; Gazette 

 de Leyde, No. 56, July 4; Journal de Paris, No. 185, 832 (July 4) ; Duques- 

 noy, Journal. I, 155 ; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationalc, July 2, says that De 

 la Borde "a dit que I'ordre du jour etait de se diviser en bureaux pour la 

 nomination des officiers et qu'on n'a du recevoir d'autre motion et que les 

 declarations et les reserves presentes sont une motion nouvelle." Assem- 

 blee nationalc, I, 314; Journal de Paris, No. 185, 832 (July 4). 



