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because his individual wish did not prevail are null ; that such an 

 engagement between a deputy and his constituents should be 

 promptly broken by the constituents and could not be recognized 

 by the assembly ; that such a clause could under no consideration 

 be affixed by any bailliage, hence all protests made in consequence 

 could not be received and could not for a single moment suspend 

 the operations of a legally constituted and essentially active as- 

 sembly; as a natural consequence, in spite of voluntary or forced 

 absence of some deputies, all decrees of the assembly will be 

 equally binding on all bailliages without exception. "^^^ Biauzat 

 asserts that when Target made his motion he arose to say that he 

 approved of it and that he had already sent a copy of it four days 

 before to Bailly and another one that very morning to the presi- 

 dent. He asked permission to develop his views in case Talley- 

 rand did not develop them as he wished. In the same letter, he 

 says " Tallyrand has developed a motion similar to the first part of 

 my own.""^ The Journal de Paris says that Talleyrand " presented 

 anew the question in a manner so clear that it seemed settled. He 

 discussed it with so much thoroughness and, at the same time, 

 with so much clearness that it seemed to- convince everyone, to 

 dispose of all scruples and to reassure doubtful consciences," but 

 that in spite of this some rose to oppose the motion.^^^ The de- 

 bate took place on July 3^^'* and 7, and the question was not 

 settled until July 8. In declaring the instructions null Talleyrand 

 was supported on July 3 by Clermont-Tonnerre^^^ and the Arch- 



mPonif du jour, I, 100. 



112 Biauzat, Sa vie et sa corrcspondancc, II, 157. That Biauzat had 

 knowledge of the motion so long before it was presented shows that the 

 question had been talked about among some of the deputies. 



'^'^^ Journal de Paris, No. 186, 836 (July 5). 



^'^^ Journal de Paris, No. 186, 836 (July 5) ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa corre- 

 spondance, II, 158; Duquesnoy, Journal, 1, 161 ; Point du jour, I, 102. All 

 of these speak of the question being turned over (July 3) to the bureaus 

 for discussion. 



'^'^^ Point du jour, I, loi ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 157; 

 Bulletins de I'asscmblcc nationalc, July 3 ; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 

 (July 5). 



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