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portance to the success of all the steps I am taking to restore order 

 in the capital. A spirit of license and insubordination is destruc- 

 tive of all good, and if this insubordination increases, not only 

 will the happiness of all the people be troubled and their con- 

 fidence shattered, but it will all end in a disregard for the cost 

 meconnaitre le prix of the work to which the representatives of 

 the nation are consecrated. Communicate my letter to the states- 

 general and do not doubt of my esteem for you." — Signed Louis, 

 July 2, 1789.^''^ 



When, on Saturday, royal pardon had not been granted to the 

 soldiers held at the Palais Royal, a letter in their behalf was sent 

 to the electors of Paris. While the electors deliberated on this 

 letter many people, sent by the citizens of the Palais Royal, went 

 to the H6tel-de-Ville to ask the electors if they thought the 

 soldiers should return to the prison of the abbey, stating that, in 

 the king's letter to the Archbishop of Paris, that had been given 

 as a condition for pardoning the soldiers. At the suggestion of 

 the Abbe Bertolio, the electors passed a decree stating that they 

 thought the pardon was contained in the letter to the archbishop ; 

 that it was not right to doubt the word of the king; that if the 

 prisoners consented to re-enter the prison and if order reigned in 

 Paris, especially at the Palais Royal, twenty-four electors would 

 go to announce to the national assembly that order was estab- 

 lished according to the terms of the letter of the king to the arch- 

 bishop ; that they would solicit the execution of the king's promise 

 and agreed not to return to Paris until pardon had been 

 granted. ^^* 



In accordance with this promise the deputation of electors pre- 

 sented themselves at the assembly on the morning of July 6.^^^ 



563 Proces-verbal,l, No. 13, i ; Point du jour, I, 96; Assemblee nationale, 

 I, 319; Courrier de Provence, I, i6th letter, i; Gazette de Leyde, No. 56 

 (July 4) ; Journal de Paris, No. 185, 831, July 4, No. 186, 835 (July 5). 



564 Proces-verbal des seances et deliberations de I'assemblce generate des 

 Hecteurs de Paris, I, 109. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 376; Courrier de Provence, I, 17th letter, 13; 

 Proces-verbal, I, No. 16, 4, gives the names of Abbe Faucher (Fauchet), 

 Abbe Bertolio, Bellanger, de Bonneville, Charton, Petiot, De Leutre, Du 

 Mangin, De la Poize, Dameuve, Dupre, De Montizon (Montyzon), Tassin, 



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