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placed in a sealed envelope and given to the care of M. Camus. 

 The next morning at seven o'clock the tellers went to the bureau 

 in the general hall and Camus having placed the sealed envelope 

 on the bureau the counting was begun, but the operation not 

 being completed when the time for the opening of the session 

 came was, at the vote of the assembly, concluded in one of the 

 nearby bureaus. ^^^ * 



At the opening of the session on July 3, a report was made on 

 the election of the officers of the bureaus^*^^ and while the tellers 

 were counting the votes for the secretaries of the assembly Bailly 

 announced that the Due d'Orleans had been elected president of 

 the assembly.^*'* There was hearty applause^^^ and the duke, 

 taking the president's place, said : " Gentlemen, if I believed I 

 could fill the place to which you have called me I would accept 

 it with pleasure. But, gentlemen, knowing how poorly fitted I 

 am for it, I would be unworthy of your kindness if I accepted it. 

 Find it right then that I refuse the honor and see in this refusal 

 only the undoubtable proof that I shall always sacrifice my 

 personal interests to the good of the state. "^''^ He then asked the 

 assembly to meet in the bureaus and to proceed to a new elec- 



^^^Proces-verhal, I, No. 13, 7, 8; Journal de Paris, No. 185, 832 (July 4), 

 says : " Les scrutins pour les secretaires avaient aussi ete remis ; mais 

 comme les suffrages se trouvaient balances entre 50 et 60 membres, et que 

 le recensement n'aurait pas ete acheve de toute la nuit, on a renvoye a 

 demain ce depouillement, qui est aussie difficile." 



363 Proces-verbal, I, No. 13, 3. 



^^^ Gazette de Leyde, K. V 5; Point du jour, I, 97; Duquesnoy, 



Journal,!, 157; Courrier de Province, 1, i6th letter, 2 ; Bulletins de I'assem- 

 blee natioiiale, July 3; Journal de Paris, No. 186. 835 (July 5) ; Biauzat, 

 Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 156; Proces-verbal, I, No. 13, 8. 



^^^ Proces-verbal, I, No. 13, 8; Courrier de Provence, 2, i6th letter, 2; 

 Point du jour, I, 97; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 157; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. 

 No. 56 (July 5), states that the report of the election caused much enthu- 

 siasm outside the assembly. 



^^& Proces-verbal, I, No. 13, 8; Point du jour, I, 97; Assemblee nationale, 

 I, 320; Journal de Paris, No. 186, 835 (July 5) ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa cor- 

 respondance, II, 156; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 (July 5) ; Bulletins de 

 I'assemblee nationale, July 3; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 157; Courrier de 

 Provence, I, i6th letter, 3. 



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