[Footnote 2115: Ferrières, II. 65 (June 10,1790).--De Montlosier, I. 402. "One of these puppets came the following day to get his money of the Comte de Billancourt, mistaking him for the Duc de Liancourt. 'Monsieur,' says he, 'I am the man who played the Chaldean yesterday.'"] [Footnote 2116: Buchez and Roux, X. 118 (June 16, 1791).] [Footnote 2117: See the printed list of deputies, with the indication of their baillage or sénéchaussée, quality, condition, and profession.] [Footnote 2118: De Bouillé, 75.--When the King first saw the list of the deputies, he exclaimed," What would the nation have said if I had made up my council or the Notables in this way?" (Buchez and Roux, IV. 39.)] [Footnote 2119: Gouverneur Morris, July 31, 1789.] [Footnote 2120: Gouverneur Morris, February 25, 1789.--Lafayette, "Mémoires," V. 492. Letter of Jefferson, February 14, 1815.--Arthur Young, June 27 and 29, 1789.] [Footnote 2121: Morris, July 1, 1789.] [Footnote 2122: Morris, July 4, 1789.] [Footnote 2123: Mallet du Pan, Mercure, September 26, 1789.] [Footnote 2124: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790; November 22, 1790.] [Footnote 2125: Dumont, 33, 58, 62.] [Footnote 2126: Sir Samuel. Romilly, "Mémoirs," I. 102. "It was their constant course first, decree the principle and leave the drawing up of what they had so resolved (or, as they called it, la rédaction) for later. It is astonishing how great an influence it had on their debates and measures".--Ibid. I. 354. Letter by Dumont, June 2, 1789. "They prefer their own folly to all the results of British experience. They revolt at the idea of borrowing anything from our government, which is scoffed at here as one of the iniquities of human reason; although they admit that you have two or three good laws; but that you should presume to have a constitution is not to be sustained."] [Footnote 2127: Dumont, 138, 151.] [Footnote 2128: Morris, January 24, 1790.] [Footnote 2129: Marmontel, XII. 265.--Ferrières,. I. 48¸ II. 50, 58, 126.--Dumont, 74.] [Footnote 2130: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790.--According to Ferrières this party comprised about three hundred members.] [Footnote 2131: Here Ambassador Morris describes the kind of man who should form the backbone of all later revolutions whether communist or fascist ones. (SR.)] [Footnote 2132: Dumont, 33, 58, 62.] [Footnote 2133: De Lavergne, "Les Assemblées Provinciales," 384. Deliberations of the States of Dauphiny, drawn up by Mournier and signed by two hundred gentlemen (July, 1788). "The rights of man are derived from nature alone, and are independent of human conventions."] [Footnote 2134: Report by Merlin de Douai, February 8, 1790, p.2.--Malouet, II, 51.] [Footnote 2135: Dumont, 133.--De Montlosier, I, 355, 361.]