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| | JEAN JOSEPH MOUNIER - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN JOSEPH MOUNIER |
 | | There, and in the Constituent Assembly, he was at first an upholder of the new ideas, pronouncing himself in favor of the union of the Third Estate with the two privileged orders, proposing the famous oath of the Tennis Court, assisting in the preparation of the new constitution, and demanding the return of Necker. |
 | | Being unable, however, to approve the proceedings which followed, Mounier withdrew to Dauphin, gave in his resignation as deputy, and, becoming suspect, took refuge in Switzerland in 1790. |
 | | Mounier (Paris, 1887); A. Rpchas, Biographie du Dauphin (Paris, 1856); Berriat St Prix, Eloge historique de M. Mounier (1806); F. BoIanovski, Quelques lettres indites de J. Mounier, in the Revue historique (1898). |
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