n in the 'Republique' section are
leaving Paris on account of the scarcity of bread."

* Floreal 5, "eighteen out of twenty-four inspectors state that patience
is exhausted and that things are coming to an end."

* Floreal 14, "the distribution is always unsatisfactory on account of
the four-ounce ration; two thirds of the citizens do without it. One
woman, on seeing the excitement of her husband and her four children who
had been without bread for two days, trailed through the gutter tearing
her hair and striking her head; she then got up in a state of fury and
attempted to drown herself."

* Floreal 20, "all exclaim that they cannot live on three ounces of
bread, and, again, of such bad quality. Mothers and pregnant women fall
down with weakness."

* Floreal 21, "the inspectors state that they encounter many persons in
the streets who have fallen through feebleness and inanition."

* Floreal 23, "a citoyenne who had no bread for her child tied it to her
side and jumped into the river. Yesterday, an individual named Mottez,
in despair through want, cut his throat."

* Floreal 25, "several persons, deprived of any means of existence,
gave up in complete discouragement, and fell down with weakness and
exhaustion.... In the 'Gravilliers' section, two men were found dead
with inanition.... The peace officers report the decease of several
citizens; one cut his throat, while another was found dead in his bed."
Floreal 28, "numbers of people sink down for lack of something to eat;
yesterday, a man was found dead and others exhausted through want."

* Prairial 24, "Inspector Laignier states that the indigent are
compelled to seek nourishment in the piles of garbage on the corners."

* Messidor 1,[42143] "the said Picard fell through weakness at ten
o'clock in the morning in the rue de la Loi, and was only brought to
at seven o'clock in the evening; he was carried to the hospital on a
hand-barrow."

* Messidor 11, "There is a report that the number of people trying to
drown themselves is so great that the nets at St. Cloud scarcely suffice
to drag them out of the water."

* Messidor 19, "A man was found on the corner of a street just dead with
hunger."

* Messidor 27, "At four o'clock in the afternoon, Place Maubert, a man
named Marcelin, employed in the Jardin des Plantes, fell down through
starvation and died while assistance was being given to him." On the
previous evening, the anniversary of the taking of the B