[Footnote 2103: Sir Samuel Romilly, "Mémoires," I. 102, 354.--Dumont, 158. (The official rules bear are dated July 29, 1789.)] [Footnote 2104: Cf. Ferrières, I. 3. His repentance is affecting.] [Footnote 2105: Letter from Morris to Washington, January 24, 1790 See page 382, "A diary of the French revolution", Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1972.--Dumont 125--Garat, letter to Condorcet.] [Footnote 2106: Arthur Young, I. 46. "Tame and elegant, uninteresting and polite, the mingled mass of communicated ideas has power neither to offend nor instruct..... All vigor of thought seems excluded from expression..... Where there is much polish of character there is little argument."--Cabinet des Estampes. See engravings of the day by Moreau, Prieur, Monet, representing the opening of the States-General. All the figures have a graceful, elegant, and genteel air.] [Footnote 2107: Marmontel, book XIII. 237.--Malouet, I. 261.--Ferrières, I. 19.] [Footnote 2108: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790.--Likewise (De Ferrières, I.71) the decree on the abolition of nobility was not the order of the day, and was carried by surprise.] [Footnote 2109: Ferrières, I. 189.--Dumont, 146.] [Footnote 2110: Letter of Mirabeau to Sieyès, June 11, 1790. "Our nation of monkeys with the throats of parrots."--Dumont, 146. "Sieyès and Mirabeau always entertained a contemptible opinion of the Constituent Assembly."] [Footnote 2111: Moniteur, I, 256, 431 (July 16 and 31, 1789).--Journal des Débats et Décrets, 105, July 16th "A member demands that M. de Lally should put his speech in writing. The whole Assembly has repeated this request."] [Footnote 2112: Moniteur. (March 11, 1790). "A nun of St. Mandé, brought to the bar of the house, thanks the Assembly for the decree by which the cloisters are opened, and denounces the tricks, intrigues, and even violence exercised in the convents to prevent the execution of the decree."--Ibid. March 29, 1790. See the various addresses which are read. "At Lagnon, the mother of a family assembled her ten children, and swore with them and for them to be loyal to the nation and to the King."--Ibid. June 5, 1790. "M. Chambroud reads the letter of the collector of customs of Lannion, in Brittany, to a priest, a member of the National Assembly. He implores his influence to secure the acceptance of his civic oath and that of all his family, ready to wield either the censer, the cart, the scales, the sword, or the pen." On reading a number of these addresses the Assembly appears to be a supplement of the Petites Affiches (a small advertising journal in Paris).] [Footnote 2113: Moniteur, October 23, 1789.] [Footnote 2114: A well-known writer of children's stories.-- 21Tr.]