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This article is the result of research undertaken with a view to answering the following question: What was the opinion of the Committee of Reports on the 7,796 documents referred to it under the National Constituent Assembly (9 July 1789–30 September 1791)? The decision to answer this question was prompted by the fact that the Committee of Reports was one of the most important and best-informed committees of the first French parliamentary assembly. Those complaints, reports, and addresses submitted to the Assembly that were not addressed to a particular committee, were remitted to the Committee of Reports, as was most of the information concerning the administration and the police. Another important reason for addressing this question was that during the early period of the French Legislative Assembly (1 October 1791–20 September 1792), a group of deputies on the leftist side was opposed to the idea of reinstating the committees of the National Assembly and was in favour of reading all of the correspondence received by the Legislative Assembly. These deputies did not want the information that had been sent to the legislature to be filtered in any way. They refused to deliberate and legislate on the basis of only information selected by the offices and committees established within the framework of the Assembly.
