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quired one day for each vote. I await, with respect, the verdict 

 which you will pass and whatever it may be I shall continue to 

 extol the justice of the assembly. "^^° 



Lally-Tolendal said : " If the king who convokes is silent, if the 

 constituents do not complain, if only one deputation exists ; if 

 there is perfect agreement, there is no cause for trouble; there 

 is nothing to reform. All that passes in a legitimate assembly is 

 legitimate. "^^^ Duquesnoy in speaking of the situation says : " The 

 aristocratic party had already triumphed ; it believed that the com- 

 mons were ready to decide par passion, to dishonor themselves in 

 the eyes of all Europe, to commit a great injustice, but that fortu- 

 nately the Comte de Lally-Tolendal, who perceived this, found a 

 means of disconcerting this intrigue. He talked with so much 

 force, reason, feeling and justice that he recalled every one to 

 principles of honor from which one should never escape and con- 

 trary to the expectation of the aristocrats Malouet was ad- 

 mitted."^^^ Many gentlemen of Riom agreed with Lally-Tolen- 

 dal.®^^ Garat, the senior, said that " acclamation which was not 

 contested proved rather clearly the general vote and that if a per- 

 fect unanimity was required no deliberation would be valid ; when 

 the electors after acclamation insist on the ballot it would be 

 absurd to authorize it (that is the vote by acclamation) and when 

 no one contests or demands it it should express the general de- 

 sire."®^* The Marquis de Montesquiou expressed himself in these 

 words : " It is certain that the form of election by acclamation has 

 the inconvenience of being tumultuous and suspicious; movements 

 of enthusiasm have their danger and esteem quietly shown, with- 

 out doubt, inspires more confidence. But it is unnecessary to con- 

 clude that all movements of enthusiasm are not true and that they 



^^'^ Point du jour, I, 159; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 10. 



^^'^ Point du jour, I, 160; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 183, and the Bulletins 

 de I'assemblee nationale, July 10, mention that Lally-Tolendal spoke, but do 

 not give the substance of the speech. 



332 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 183. 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 160; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 10, 

 names Andrieu; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 172, names 

 Branche and Andrieu. 



^^'^ Point du jour, I, 160; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 10. 



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