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and began their work by choosing their officers, a president, a 

 secretary and in some cases an assistant secretary. Of the presi- 

 dents five were archbishops, nine were bishops, one an abbe, one 

 a cure, two princes, four counts, five dukes, and two marquises. 

 That not a single member of the third estate was chosen as presi- 

 dent of a bureau is significant for it shows that the assembly still 

 respected the honorary prerogatives of the clergy and nobles. 

 On the other hand, of the thirty-three secretaries who were 

 chosen (four bureaus chose two secretaries or a secretary and an 

 assistant) twenty-nine were from the third estate, one was a 

 marquis, one a chevalier and one a cure f^^ that is, almost with- 

 out exception from the third estate. In accordance with the 

 rules for the election of a president and secretaries each member 

 voted in his bureau for the one he desired for president and 

 secretaries of the assembly. The votes of each bureau were then 

 counted and arranged in lists showing who had received the votes 

 and how many each had received. These votes were then 

 carried by two tellers from each bureau to the bureau in the 



3os Proccs-z'crbal, I, No. 13, 3. The presidents of the bureaus from i to 

 30 were as follows : L'eveque d'Agen ; Le comte de la Blache ; L'eveque 



de Chartres; Le due d'Aiguillon ; ; L'eveque de Nancy; Le comte de 



Crillon ; Le marquis de la Coste ; L' eveque de Coutances ; Le due de la 

 Rochefoucauld ; L'eveque de Lydda ; Le comte de Rochechouart ; L'arche- 

 veque d'Aix; Le due de Liancourt; De Coulmier; Le prince de Poix; 

 L'archeveque de Bourges ; Le due de Praslin ; Le prince de Broglie ; Le 



marquis de Lezay-Marnezia; L'eveque, due de Langres; ; Le due 



d'Orleans and L'eveque d'Orange ; L'eveque de Dijon; Lanusse L'arche- 

 veque de Venne ; L'archeveque de Bordeaux ; Le comte de la Tour- 

 Dupin ; L'archeveque de Paris ; L'eveque de Nimes. 



The secretaries of the bureaus from i to 30 were: Le Chapelier; Turk- 

 heim and Garnier; Salomon; Garat; Petion de Villeneuve; Lapoule; 

 Gregoire, and Rabaut de Saint-Etienne ; Mounier ; Chevalier de Boufflers 

 and Regnauld d'Epercy; Pison du Galland; Gaultier de Biauzat and 

 Mathiez ; Barnave ; Thouret; Emmery; Du Port; Creniere; Bergasse; 



; Bouche ; Volney ; Gaillon ; Meusnier-Dubreuil ; Prieur ; Target ; 



Thibault; Glezen ; Du Pont; Laborde de Mereville; Lofficial; Marquis de 

 Blacons. 



All the bureaus except two, the fifth and the twenty-second, had elected 

 presidents. The twenty-third had elected both a president and a vice- 

 president (the president being the Due d'Orleans). 



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