(Speech by Fouquier-Tinville in the Convention， Vent？se 19.) "The mayor of Pont St. Maxence has dared to say that 'when Paris sends us sugar we will then see about letting her have our eggs and butter.'"[74] Archives des Affaires étrangères， vol. 1411. (Reports of August 7 and 8， 1793.) "Seven thousand five hundred pounds of bread， about to be taken out， have been stopped at the barriers." - Dauban， 45.
(Orders of the day. Pluvi？se 17.) Lamps are set up at all the posts， "especially at la Greve and Passy， so as to light up the river and see that no eatables pass outside." - Mercier， I.， 355. - Dauban， 181.
(Reports of Vent？se 18.) - 210. (Reports of Vent？se 21.) - 190.
Speech by Fouquier， Vent？se 19.) "The butchers in Paris who cannot sell above the maximum carry the meat they buy to the Sèvres butchers and sell it at any price they please. " - 257. (Reports of Vent？se 27.) "You see， about ten o'clock in the evening， aristocrats and other egoists coming to the dealers who supply Egalité's mansion (the Duke of Orleans) and buy chickens and turkeys which they carefully conceal under their overcoats."[75] Dauban， 255. (Orders of the day by Henriot， Vent？se 27.) "I have to request my brethren in arms not to take any rations whatever. This little deprivation will silence the malevolent who seek every opportunity to humble us." - Ibid.，359. "On Floreal 29， between five and six o'clock in the morning， a patrol of about fifteen men of the Bonnet Rouge section， commanded by a sort of commissary， stop subsistences on the Orleans road and take them to their section."[76] Dauban， 341. (Letter of the Commissioner on Subsistences， Germinal 23.) "The supplies are stolen under the people's eyes， or what they get is of inferior quality." The commissioner is surprised to find that， having provided so much， so little reaches the consumers.
[77] Archives des Affaires étrangères， vol.1411. (Reports of August 11-12 and 31， and Sept. 1， 1793.) - Archives Nationales， F. 7， 31167.) (Reports of Niv？se 7 and 12， year II.)[78] Dauban， "Paris en 1794， 60， 68， 69， 71， 82， 93， 216， 231. -Schmidt， "Tableaux de Paris，" 187， 190. - Archives Nationales， F. 7， 31167. (Report of Leharivel， Niv？se 7.) - The gunsmiths employed by the government likewise state that they have for a long time had nothing to eat but bread and cheese.
[79] Dauban， 231. (Report of Perriére， Vent？se 24.) "Butter of which they make a god."[80] Ibid.， 68. (Report of Vent？se 2.)[81] Archives Nationales， F.7， 31167. (Report of Niv？se 28.) - Dauban， 144. (Report of Niv？se 14.)[82] Dauban， 81. (Report of Latour-Lamontagne， Vent？se 4.)[83] Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux，" 83. "Friday， June 15， 1794， a proclamation is made that all who have any provisions in their houses， wheat， barley， rye， flour and even bread， must declare them within twenty four hours under penalty of being regarded as an enemy of the country and declared 'suspect，' put under arrest and tried by the courts." - Schmidt， "Tableaux de la Revolution Fran？aise，" II.. 214. A seizure is made at Passy of two pigs and forty pounds of butter， six bushels of beans， etc.， in the domicile of citizen Lucet who had laid in supplies for sixteen persons of his own household.
[84] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 68. Orders of the Committee of Public Safety， Pluvi？se 23， referring to the law of Brumaire 25， forbidding the extraction of more than fifteen pounds of bran from a quintal of flour. Order directing the removal of bolters from bakeries and mills； he who keeps or conceals these on his property "shall be treated as 'suspect' and put under arrest until peace is declared." - Berryat Saint Prix， 357， 362. At Toulouse， three persons are condemned to death for monopoly. At Montpelier， a baker， two dealers and a merchant are guillotined for having invoiced， concealed and kept a certain quantity of gingerbread cakes intended solely for consumption by anti-revolutionaries.
[85] "Un Séjour en France，" (April 22， 1794).
[86] Ludovic Sciout， IV.， 236. (Proclamation of the representatives on mission in Finisterre.) "Magistrates of the people tell all farmers and owners of land that their crops belong to the nation and that they are simply its depositaries." Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 92.
(Orders by B？， representative in Cautal， Pluvi？se 8.) "Whereas， as all citizens in a Republic form one family. . . . all those who refuse to assist their brethren and neighbors under the specious pretext that they have not sufficient supplies must be regarded as 'suspect '
citizens."
[87] Archives Nationales， AF.， II.， 68. (Orders of the Committee of Public Safety， Prairial 28.) The maximum price is fourteen francs the quintal； after Messidor 30， it is not to be more than eleven francs.
[88] Ibid.， AF.， II.， 116 and 106， orders of Paganel， Castres， Pluvi？se 6 and 7. Orders of Dartigoyte， Floréal 23， 25， and 29.