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of Bordeaux, Bouche,*^^ Boufflers/" and Joubert,^^^ while Petion 

 de Villeneuve opposed it. 



The Archbishop of Bordeaux stated that his bureau desired 

 this action because the assembly would not be stopped in its work. 

 His bureau also suggested first, that charity organizations be 

 doubled and in places where none now existed, some should be 

 organized; second, that since the assembly was charged with 

 framing a constitution the king, the government, the provincial 

 and municipal assemblies and all officers charged with public 

 adminstration should be asked to direct their attention to methods 

 of stopping this evil which has afflicted the people for such a long 

 tim£.^^* 



Petion de Villeneuve opposed this suggestion because the as- 

 sembly was ignorant of the measures which the king had used to 

 prevent the famine. His bureau thought the assembly should 

 wait until it was sure that the result justified this first move- 

 ment.*^^ Lally-Tolendal desired the assembly to decree that the 

 king should be requested to make known through his ministry if 

 any extraordinary aid is necessary in these circumstances and 

 to state exactly what kind of help should be given. Furthermore 

 he desired the assembly to promise that " as soon as the estab- 

 lishment and the promulgation of constitutional laws will permit, 

 it would consider subsidies and that the first to be considered 

 would be one to give help in such times as the present." Tolendal 

 also suggested that the decree which he desired the assembly to 

 adopt should be sent to the king for his royal sanction and that the 

 king be asked to publish this decree in all parts of his kingdom, 

 " the assembly reserving for itself the right to provide a succession 

 of fundamental laws on grains, provisions and subsistence; these 



^^^"^ Assemhlce nationale, I, 368; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale,'i\x\y6. 



^^^ Assemblce nationale, I, 371; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 

 6; the Assemblee nationale says he spoke for the ninth bureau, while the 

 Bulletins says he was a member of the fifth bureau. 



453 Moniteur, I, 128. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 366-367; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, 

 July 6. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 370; Courrier de Provence, I, 17th letter, 11; 

 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 6. 



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