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organization of the assembly. This committee, which was to 

 " occupy itself with the necessary rules for the order and expedi- 

 tion of affairs of the assembly," was established on June 19.^^^ 



It was originally composed of twenty members of the third 

 estate, one from each of the twenty bureaus provisionally estab- 

 lished June 13.^*" As members of the upper orders joined the 

 assembly, the committee was enlarged, but proportional repre- 

 sentation was maintained. Thus ten clergy were added to the 

 committee on June 25^*^ and ten nobles on June 26.^*- 



In the session of July i, Rabaut de Saint-Etienne, as reporter 

 for the committee, presented " several articles which seemed 

 necessary to render the assembly active."^*^ These related to the 

 establishment of four huissiers^^* to prevent too many people 

 occupying the seats of the deputies, the election of a president 

 and six secretaries^*^ and the distribution of the deputies into 

 thirty bureaus.^**^ Some of the articles proposed were opposed 

 and the assembly postponed further action on them until six 

 o'clock in the evening.^*^ In the evening session the proposition 

 made by the committee concerning the distribution of members 

 into bureaus was taken up^*^ and after a little difficulty re- 



339 Proces-verbal, I, No. 2, 2, 3. 



^*^ Proces-verbal of the commons from June 12 to 17, 48. 



3" Proces-verbal, I, No. 7, 18. 



342 ihid., I, No. 8, 26. 



^^^ Ibid., I, No. II, 18; Journal de Paris, No. 184, 827 (July 3) ; Courrier 

 de Provence, I, 15th letter, 7; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 

 153; Bulletins de I'assemblce nationale, July i. 



^^^ Bulletins de I'assemblce nationale, July i; Assemblce nationale, I, 

 I, 299. 



3*5 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July i ; Proces-verbal, I, No. 12, 8. 



346 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July i ; Journal de Paris, No. 184, 

 827 (July 3). 



^'^'^ Proces-verbal, I, No. 11, 20; Courrier de Provence, I, 15th letter, 7; 

 Point du jour, I, 87. 



348 Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 153. Biauzat states an in- 

 teresting circumstance regarding this evening session. He says : " On a 

 apergu des choix d'idees qui justifiaient combien il est plus avantageux 

 de deliberer en toute affaire comme pour le jugement des criminels. M. 

 le cardinal de la Rochefoucauld et son bon ami, qui avaient tant de repug- 



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