114 Ethel Lee Hozvie 



The motions of Crillon, Lemercier, Camus, Target, Boufflers 

 and le Chapelier were voted on by a rising vote and all were re- 

 jected,^*® although it seems that the motion of Target had the 

 plurality.^*^ This plurality was however contested by Mirepoix 

 who insisted that they must vote by ballot on the question. 

 Duquesnoy says in regard to this action of Mirepoix, " I suspect 

 that his secret aim was to show that it was impossible to make 

 I200 people vote, so much more so because many nobles have 

 said, 'We wish to see you ask us to retire.' Two spirits of 

 opposition are manifest: some members of the nobles and clergy 

 who wish to retard in order to force deliberation and some mem- 

 bers of the commons who talk shamefully of the nobles and seem 

 distressed to have them in the hall."^^° 



Freteau, it seems, proposed a second reading of the motion of 

 Boufflers^^^ and after a suggestion had been made to unite this 

 motion with the one proposed by Target,^^^ the assembly agreed 

 and the following decree was passed : " The president will reply to 

 those sent from the capital that they should report in that city 

 the desire for peace and union, which alone can help in the work 

 to which the national assembly consecrates itself. The national as- 

 sembly laments the troubles which agitate the capital ; and its 

 members in invoking the clemency of the king for the guilty ones 

 will always give an example of profound respect for the royal 

 authority on which the security of the empire depends. It there- 

 fore entreats the inhabitants of the capital to become orderly at 

 once and to fill themselves with peaceful feelings, which alone can 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 85; Biauzat. Sa vie et sa correspondancc, II, 152; 

 Assevihlee nationale, I, 293, 294, 295, 297; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 150; 5m/- 

 letins de I'assemblee nationale, July i. 



549 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 150. 



550 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 150. 



551 Point du jour, I, 85. 



552 Point du jour, I, 85 ; Assemhlee nationale, I, 297 ; Biauzat, Sa vie et 

 sa correspondancc, II, 152. The Assemhlee nationale states that the bu- 

 reau reduced them to a single motion, while the Point du jour says that 

 Target " saisissant le voeu general de I'assemblee, a redige, d'apres le 

 diverges motions, I'arrete suivant qui a passe a la plus grand majorite: 

 Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July I ; Gazette de Leyde, No. 56 

 (July 4). 



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