The Counter Revolution of June-July JJ 



from now till January i, 1790.^®^ The Bulletins de I'assemhlee 

 nationale state that these two committees were to report to a 

 committee of forty, but that this committee of forty was not to 

 be chosen until the two other committees were prepared to make 

 a report.^^^ Bouche seemed to attach much importance to the 

 work of this committee, but no one, at first, seconded his motion. 

 He then insisted upon immediate action^^" but the Comte de 

 Virieu arose to say that generally it was dangerous to act im- 

 mediately on a motion and he therefore asked that the question 

 should be sent to the bureaus for discussion. ^^^ Freteau also 

 desired discussion in the bureaus.^^^ According to Duquesnoy, 

 Freteau asserted that even during the time that the national as- 

 sembly had been in session taxes, especially the vingtiemes, had 

 been increased,^^^ and the Point du jour adds that this increase 

 amounted to 33^ per cent, of the total.^^* Freteau also com- 

 plained that the capitaineries were becoming more and more in- 

 tolerable and that a committee was indeed necessary to stop 

 depredations in all departments of finance.^^^ Target, it appears, 

 thought that the committee should be composed of sixty mem- 

 bers, two from each bureau. Financial questions should be con- 

 sidered only after the constitution had been made.^^*^ Bouche 

 asked that copies of his motion might be printed and sent to 

 the bureaus so that the motion could be discussed in the evening. 



3SS Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 172; Bulletins de I'assemblee 

 nationale, July 10. 



^^^ Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 3; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 182, 

 says that a report was to be given after the constitution was established. 



390 Assemblee ttationale, I, 450. 



^^'^ Point du jour, 1, 156. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 450; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 182; Point du 

 jour, I, 156. 



393 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 182. 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 156. 



395 Assemblee nationale, I, 451 ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 182. 



3^^ Point du jour, I, 156; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 182, says that it was 

 Bouche who desired 60 on the committee, but this is evidently a mistake, 

 as the other sources agree that Bouche desired 20 on each of the two 

 committees. 



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