arley, barley-malt and millet."--At
Nimes,[4249] to make the grain supply last, which is giving out, the
bakers and all private persons are ordered not to sift the meal, but to
leave the bran in it and knead and bake the "dough such as it is."--At
Grenoble,[4250] "the bakers have stopped baking; the country people no
longer bring wheat in; the dealers hide away their goods, or put them in
the hands of neighborly officials, or send them off."--"It goes from bad
to worse," write the agents of Huningue;[4251] one might say even, that
they would give this or that article to their cattle rather than sell
it in conformity with the tax."--The inhabitants of towns are everywhere
put on rations, and so small a ration as to scarcely keep them from
dying with hunger. "Since my arrival in Tarbes," writes another
agent,[4252] "every person is limited to half a pound of bread a day,
composed one-third of wheat and two-thirds of corn meal." The next day
after the fete in honor of the tyrant's death there was absolutely none
at all. "A half-pound of bread is also allowed at Evreux,[4253] "and
even this is obtained with a good deal of trouble, many being obliged
to go into the country and get it from the farmers with coin." And even
"they have got very little bread, flour or wheat, for they have been
obliged to bring what they had to Evreux for the armies and for Paris."

It is worse at Rouen and at Bordeaux: at Rouen, in Brumaire, the
inhabitants have only one quarter of a pound per head per diem of bread;
at Bordeaux, "for the past three months," says the agent,[4254] "the
people sleep at the doors of the bakeries, to pay high for bread which
they often do not get... There has been no baking done to-day, and
to-morrow only half a loaf will be given to each person. This bread is
made of oats and beans... On days that there is none, beans, chestnuts
and rice are distributed in very small quantities," four ounces of
bread, five of rice or chestnuts. "I, who tell you this, have already
eaten eight or ten meals without bread; I would gladly do without it
if I could get potatoes in place of it, but these, too, cannot be had."
Five months later, fasting still continues, and it lasts until after the
reign of Terror, not alone in the town, but throughout the department.
"In the district of Cadillac, says Tallien,[4255] "absolute dearth
prevails; the citizens of the rural districts contend with each other
for the grass in the fields; I have eate