ch the public treasury, because they are used
for purchasing grain in the departments." Ibid., XIX., 29. (Speech by
Cambon, Oct.12, 1792.) "You can bear witness in your departments to the
sacrifices which well-to-do people have been obliged to make in helping
the poor class. In many of the towns extra taxes have been laid for the
purchase of grain and for a thousand other helpful measures."]

[Footnote 4226: Buchez et Roux, XX., 409. (Letter of Roland, Nov.29,
1792)--XXI., 199. (Deliberations of the provisional executive council,
Sep. 3, 1792.)--Dauban, "La Demagogie en 1793," p. 64. (Diary kept by
Beaulieu.) Ibid., 152.)]

[Footnote 4227: Schmidt, I., 110-130.--Decrees against the export of
coin or ingots, Sep. 5 and 15, 1792.-Decree on stocks or bonds payable
to bearer, Aug.14, 1792.]

[Footnote 4228: We might today call this sentiment a desire to acquire
and retain. (Sentiment of acquisiton). (SR.)]

[Footnote 4229: Taine's remark in a footnote. (SR.)]

[Footnote 4230: Archives Nationales, D., 55, I., file 2. (Letter by
Joifroy, national agent in the district of Bar-sur-Aube, Germinal 5,
year III.) "Most of the farmers, to escape the requisition, have sold
their horses and replaced them with oxen."--Memoirs (in ms.) of M.
Dufort de Cheverney (communicated by M. Robert de Crevecoeur). In June,
1793, "the requisitions fall like hail, every week, on wheat, hay,
straw, oats, etc.," all at prices fixed by the contractors, who make
deductions, postpone and pay with difficulty. Then come requisitions for
hogs. "This was depriving all the country folks of what they lived
on." As the requisitions called for live hogs, there was a hog St.
Bartholomew. Everybody killed his pig and salted it down." (Environs
of Blois.) In relation to refusing to gather in crops, see further
on.--Dauban, "Paris in 1794, p.229. (Ventose 24, general orders by
Henriot.) "Citizen Guillon being on duty outside the walls, saw with
sorrow that citizens were cutting their wheat to feed rabbits with."]

[Footnote 4231: Decree of Messidor 23, year II., on the consolidation
with the national domain of the assets and liabilities of hospitals and
other charitable institutions. (See reports of prefets on the effect of
this law, on the ruin of the hospitals, on the misery of the sick, of
foundlings and the infirm, from years IX. to XIII.)--Decrees of August
8 and 12, 1793, and July 24, 1794, on academies and literary
societies.--Decree of August 24, 1793,