nd thirty-five thousand bushels of grain. There is no
real dearth."]

[Footnote 4221: Schmidt, ibid., I., 110, and following pages.--Buchez
et Roux, XX., 416. (Speeches of Lequinio, November 27, 1792.)--Moniteur,
XVII., 2. (Letter by Clement, Puy-de-Dome, June 15, 1793.) "For the past
fifteen days bread has been worth sixteen and eighteen sous the pound.
There is the most frightful distress in our mountains. The government
distributes one-eighth of a bushel to each person, everybody being
obliged to wait two days to take his turn. One woman was smothered and
several were wounded."]

[Footnote 4222: Cf. "La Revolution," I., 208; II., 294, 205,
230.--Buchez et Roux, XX., 431. (Report of Lecointe-Puyraveau, Nov. 30,
1792.) (Mobs of four, five and six thousand men in the departments of
Eure-et-Loire, Eure, Orme, Calvados, Indre-et-Loire, Loiret, and Sarthe
cut down the prices of produce. The three delegates of the Convention
disposed to interfere have their lives saved only on condition of
announcing the rate dictated to them.--Ibid., 409. (Letter of Roland,
Nov.27, 1792.)--XXI., 198. (Another letter by Roland, Dec. 6,
1792.) "All convoys are stopped at Lissy, la Ferte, Milan, la
Ferte-sous-Jouarre... Carts loaded with wheat going to Paris have been
forced to go back near Lonjumeau and near Meaux."]

[Footnote 4223: Archives Nationales, F. 7, 3265. (Letter of David,
cultivator, and administrator of the department of Seine-Inferieure,
Oct.11, 1792; letter of the special committee of Rouen, Oct.22; letter
of the delegates of the executive power, Oct.20, etc.) "Reports from all
quarters state that the farmers who drive to market are considered and
treated in their parishes as aristocrats..... Each department keeps to
itself: they mutually repel each other."]

[Footnote 4224: Buchez et Roux, XX., 409. (Letter of Roland, Nov. 271
1792.) "The circulation of grain has for a long time encountered
the greatest obstacles; scarcely a citizen now dares to do that
business."--Ibid., 417. (Speech by Lequinio.) "The monopoly of wheat
by land-owners and farmers is almost universal. Fright is the cause of
it.... And where does this fear come from? From the general agitation,
and threats, with the bad treatment in many places of the farmers,
land-owners and traffickers in wheat known as bladiers."--Decrees of
Sep.16, 1792, and May 4, 1793.]

[Footnote 4225: Buchez et Roux, XIX. (Report by Cambon, Sep.22, 1792.)
"The taxes no longer rea