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work. He favored the adoption of Talleyrand's motion, without 

 amendment.^-" 



That protests or imperative instructions could not prevent the 

 decrees of the assembly from becoming binding on the bailliages 

 were maintained by Clermont-Tonnerre/^" the Bishop of Lan- 

 gres,^^^ the Bishop of Orange^^- and the Bishop of Chartres^^^ on 

 July 30 and by Barere^^^ on July 7. Clermont-Tonnerre said 

 that each bailliage was subject to the general wish and must abide 

 by this wish, but that the assembly could decree nothing till the 

 constituents had either released the deputies from their oaths or 

 refused to change their instructions. In the latter case, the bail- 

 liage would not 'be represented, but would be no less subject to the 

 laws which were made.^'^' The Bishop of Chartres said that " a 

 part of a bailliage can not prevent the wish of a majority any more 

 than five million can prevent the wishes of the other twenty mil- 

 lion if the whole nation were assembled."^^*' 



That imperative instructions were binding on the assembly was 

 maintained by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld,^^^ the Due de 

 Mortemart^''^ on July 3 and by Toustain de Veray,^^^ Clermont- 



^-^ Point dii jour, I, 132; Bulletins de I'asscmblee nationale, July 7, says 

 that " I'assemblee ne se livre qu'a un travail preparatoire et attends la 

 division des bailliages sur les mandats." 



130 Bulletins de I'asscmblee nationale, July 3. 



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

 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 3 ; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 

 (Julys). 



132 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 161. 



133 Point du jour, I, loi ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 157. 

 '^^'^ Point du jour, I, 131. 



135 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 3. 

 "^^^ Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 3. 



137 Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 157; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. 

 No. 56 (Julys). 



138 Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, IS7; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. 

 No. s6 (July s) ; Point du jour, I, loi ; Bulletins de I'asscmblee nationale, 



July 3. 



1-^^ Point du jour, I, 137; Journal de Paris, No. 190, 855 (July 9) ; Du- 

 quesnoy, Journal, I, 168. The Point du jour gives no name but says " un 

 membre de la noblesse." 



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