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Bailly should not perhaps have read the letter for it was ad- 

 dressed to him personally,^^^ but this criticism is unfounded for 

 the letter was addressed to the " president " of the assembly. 

 Five plans of action received favorable consideration by the as- 

 sembly : ( I ) That a committee be appointed to examine into the 

 affair ;^^^ (2) that the assembly itself should act;^^^ (3) that an 

 address should be sent to the constituents;^^" (4) that the question 

 should be left to executive action;'-^ (5) that a deputation be 

 sent to the king.^-' The Archbishop of Bordeaux^^^ and Reubell^-* 

 urged that a committee be appointed, while Demeunier, Clermont- 

 Lodeve and Lemercier desired the assembly itself to act and to 

 use its influence to disperse the crowd at the Palais Royal. None 

 of them made any proposition for any action by the assembly con- 

 cerning the troops. Demeunier realized that the deputies pos- 

 sessed only legislative power, but he thought that there were cir- 

 cumstances under which the executive and legislative power should 

 move in concert. At this time, deputies should be sent, not to the 

 king, or to the ministers or to the colonel of the guards, but to 

 the capital itself so that by their presence they might prevent 

 the excitement from spreading to all parts of the kingdom.^-^ 

 Lemercier proposed that the president ask the deputies to return 

 to Paris, for the " surest way to win the approval of the as- 

 sembly " was to become orderly. ^-° Clermont-Lodeve said that 



du jour, I, 81; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 149; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa corre- 

 spondance, II, 152; Assemblee nationale, I, 283. 



517 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 149. 



518 Point du jour, I, 82 ; Assemblee nationale, I, 284 ; Gazette de Leyde, 

 Sup. No. 55 (July 2). 



^'^^ Point du jour, I, 82; Assemblee nationale, I, 286. 



520 Point du jour, I, 83 ; Assemblee nationale, I, 288 ; Duquesnoy, Journal, 

 I, 149; Courrier de Provence, I, isth letter, 5. 



^-"^ Point du jour, I, 84; Assemblee nationale, I, 289; Biauzat, Sa vie et 

 sa correspondance, II, 152; Courrier de Provence, I, 15th letter, 4. 



522 Point du jour, I, 84. 



523 Ibid., 84. 



52ilbid., 82. 



"^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 286; Point du jour, I, 83; Bulletins de I'as' 

 semblee nationale, July i. 



526 Assemblee nationale, I, 293. 



