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Biauzat asserts that although Du Pont presented the report 

 in an interesting- way there was general dissatisfaction with the 

 six expedients suggested.*^^ Duquesnoy, on the other hand, 

 found the report " detestable, infinitely long, presenting false and 

 perhaps dangerous ideas. "^^* As the assembly did not consider 

 that it possessed sufficient information on the question to vote on 

 it at this time it was agreed to send the matter to the bureaus 

 for discussion.*^^ The bureaus considered the six propositions 

 of the committee on the evening of July 4 and in the morning of 

 July 6.*^^ Opinions varied in the bureaus and the discussion con- 

 tinued in the assembly on the morning of July 6.*^^ M. Blandin, 

 cure of Orleans, was the only one who favored the subscription. 

 The suggestions of the committee would help for the future, he 

 said, but the actual needs made these suggestions unsatisfactory 

 for the present. Two great misfortunes afflicted the people ; the 

 lack of grain and the lack of money. Productions had been sent 

 to foreign countries, but grain was not lacking in France. The 

 frontier provinces were not ruined, but the interior of the king- 

 dom suffered. Continued disturbances around Orleans had 



he proposed three ways of aiding the people; Journal de Paris, No. 187, 

 840 (July 6). 



433 Biauzat, Sa vie ct sa correspondance, II, 160. 



434 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 162. 



435 Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 (July 5) ; Point du jour, I, no; Jour- 

 nal de Paris, No. 187, 840 (July 6) ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, 

 II, 160; Courrier de Provence, I, 17th letter, 6; Bulletins de I'assemblee 

 nationale, July 4; Proces-verbal, I, No. 15, 5. 



is<i Proces-verbal, I, No. 15, 5; Point du jour, I, in; Assemblee na- 

 tionale, 355 ; Biauzat, Correspondance, II, 161. " Nous avons confere en 

 bureaux j usque sur les dix heures et demi . . . Tons les moyens indiques 

 par le bureau de subsistances ont paru, dans celui dont je suis membra, 

 minutieux ou dangereux. . . . M. de Lally-Tolendal en a propose un qui 

 nous a paru beaucoup moins mauvais"; Journal de Paris, No. 188, 840 

 (July 7), states that the bureaus met on the morning of July 6 and that 

 the session did not open till eleven o'clock ; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 

 (July 5), states that the bureaus would assemble that evening and the 

 next morning and that the united assembly would take up the question on 

 the morning of July 6. 



437 Assemblee nationale, I, 355 ; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, 

 II, 161. 



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