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addresses from Chateau-Thierry, Pontivy and Vernouillet-sur- 

 Seine " adhered to all the decrees taken by the assembly and com- 

 plimented them on the union of the orders."*^- The deputy of 

 Saint-Jean-de-Losne delivered a discourse which, he stated, had 

 been prepared for him. For six centuries, he said, the town had 

 enjoyed special privileges because of its bravery and its loyalty. 

 It had always guarded these rights and retained them till the 

 present time. They now felt that citizens who had sacrificed blood 

 and fortune should sacrifice still more when the country was in 

 distress. It therefore renounced from that time all its peculiar 

 privileges, the effect of the renunciation to take place as soon as 

 the national assembly had fixed the basis of the constitution by a 

 definite declaration of the rights of the nation and the monarch, 

 and had established equality proportional to the possessions and 

 the faculties of each individual. *^^ 



The address from Nantes complimented the assembly on its 

 wisdom and energy, approved the decrees of June 17 and those 

 following, declared that the people of Nantes desired the royal 

 authority maintained in all its force ; spoke of the expectation of 

 the French people as a result of the union of the orders and praised 

 the nobles for joining the third estate in order to work for the 

 regeneration of the kingdom. ^^* 



In regard to the addresses not read in the assembly, the sources 

 do not give the terms of the addresses, but we are told that those 

 received July 7 from Vitre, Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier, and le Bourg 

 de Saint- Vallier all " contained protestations of love and fidelity 

 for the sacred person of the king, and expressed sentiments of 

 respect, admiration, recognition, approval for the firmness, mod- 

 eration, patriotism and deliberations of the national assembly."*®^ 

 The addresses July 8 from Rennes, Vannes, Saint-Brieuc, Lam- 

 balle, Dinan, Guerande, la Guerche, Montfort, Loudeac, Clermont- 



*92 Ibid., No. IS, 3 ; Assemhlee nationale, I, 340, says that the address of 

 Chateau-Thierry contained 5 articles and stated that the union of the 

 orders would be mentioned in the city registry. 



i^^ Proces-verhal, I, No. 17, 3; Assemhlee nationale, I, 381. 



^^^ Ibid., I, No. 17, 9, 13. The address is given in full, pages 13-18; 

 Assemhlee nationale, I, 393; Point du jour, I, 127. 



*95 Proces-verbal, I, No. 17, 2. 



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