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must take such action, as would keep the French guards favorable 

 to it, if it would have military support in the conflict with the 

 king. Boufflers desired the assembly to declare that knowledge 

 of affairs relative to popular troubles belongs to the king alone; 

 that it condemned those stirring up trouble in Paris and that the 

 members of the assembly would not cease to give an example of 

 "profound respect for the royal authority on which the security 

 of the empire depends," that the people of Paris would be asked 

 to become orderly as this alone "can assure the infinite good 

 which France is ready to receive from the free assembly of the 

 states-general to which the union of the three orders leaves no 

 obstacle."^^^ Duquesnoy asserts that when the words states- 

 general were used such a murmur arose that Boufflers was obliged 

 to substitute the words national assembly .^^^ This is significant 

 for it is to be remembered that on this day the committee on 

 verification gave its first report after the union of the orders and 

 that the committee on rules also reported several plans for unify- 

 ing and organizing the assembly. 



Target, Camus, Gouy d'Arsy, Le Chapelier and Volney favored a 

 deputation to the king while the Bishop of Langres, the Arch- 

 bishop of Vienne and M. Boery opposed such a deputation. It is 

 clear here again that there was a division in the assembly, the 

 upper orders desiring to do nothing which would limit the king's 

 power while the third estate had the two-fold idea of retaining the 

 good will of the people of Paris and the French guards and of 

 preventing a clash with the king. Target and Camus wished the 

 president to ask the delegates to take back to Paris a report of 

 the " desire for peace and order which alone could aid the work 

 of the assembly for public good " ; that the deputies of Paris should 

 write to the electors of the capital asking them to second the 

 sentiments of the assembly in desiring peace; that four prelates 

 should go to inform the king of the action of the assembly and ask 



^^^ AssemhUe nationale, I, 294; Point du jour, I, 84; Duquesnoy, Jour- 

 nal, I, 150; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July i. 

 539 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 150. 



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