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Chapelier agreed with Sieyes in this and asked how any one 

 could think that camps and armies should surround them and 

 alarm their constituents.^^^ Such a claim, he asserted, had been 

 made twenty years ago by the nobles in Brittany and the troops 

 were withdrawn. ^^^ 



Mirabeau said : " I have never doubted that the nobles would 

 cast themselves between us and bayonets. I here take an oath to 

 denounce some day those counselling attacks on public liberty. "^^^ 

 Bouchotte and Target cited the terms of their cahiers which de- 

 manded the removal of the troops. ^^^ Bouchotte stated that the 

 provinces had the privilege of having no troops near them and 

 asked why the states-general did not have the same privilege. ^^^ 

 Target read an article of his cahier which said that " no troops 

 should approach nearer than ten leagues to the place where the 

 assembly of the estates met, without the consent or the request of 

 the estates. ^^^ Biauzat proposed an amendment to the plan of 

 Mirabeau. He desired that the article referring to the citizen 

 guard be omitted unless such a provision should be deemed neces- 

 sary in the future. ^^^ Biauzat gives as a reason for making this 

 amendment that being " instructed they had ordered the guns, 

 pistols, and other arms taken from the homes of individuals at 

 six leagues from Versailles, I feared that this demand might be 

 represented to the king as tending to put arms in the hands of 

 people who were represented to the king as having little respect 

 for his person and his throne. Besides I feared that the capital 



tionale, I, 424. This does not mention Brittany but says the provincial 

 estates ; Courrier de Provence, I, i8th letter, 15. 



585 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 175; Point dii jour, I, 143; Courrier de Prov- 

 ence, I, i8th letter, 15 ; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 8. 



586 Courrier de Provence, I, i8th letter, 16 ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 175 ; 

 Point du jour, I, 143. 



587 Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 175; Point du jour, I, 144. 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 143; Assemblee nationale, I, 424; Duquesnoy, Jour- 

 nal, I, 175 ; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 8. 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 144; Courrier de Provence, I, i8th letter, 15; Bul- 

 letins de I'assemblee 7iationale, July 8. 



590 Point du jour, I, 143 ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 175 ; Courrier de Prov- 

 ence, I, i8th letter, 17; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 8. 



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