The deputies gathered for the last time on Friday, 30 September 1791. The new constitution had been promulgated a fortnight earlier and the time had come to settle outstanding debts. Sieur Lataille, the owner of the Versailles tennis court which had provided shelter for members of the old Third Estate in their hour of need was handsomely rewarded with a gratuity of 6,000 livres. Simultaneously, countless French men and women who had been indicted on charges of riot or revolt since May 1788 were granted an amnesty. The deputies were plainly anxious to cast a veil over deeds perpetrated during the interregnum between Lamoignon's ‘despotic’ action against the parlements and the construction of a properly constitutional regime. After a final speech by the king, the president uttered the words that all were waiting to hear: ‘the National Constituent Assembly declares that its mission is fulfilled and its sessions are over’. The break could not have been more sharply signalled and it applied to the deputies as well. For earlier that year they had passed a law rendering themselves ineligible for election to the next legislature. Most set off for home, in consequence; albeit with some apprehension as to what the future held in store. Since their departure for Versailles some two and a half years earlier the face of provincial France had been transformed, and deputies drawn from the old privileged orders, in particular, had good reason to feel vulnerable.