3.--Report by a member of the Piques section, September 8 and 10,
1793.--Cf. the petitions of traders and lawyers imprisoned at Troyes,
Strasbourg, Bordeaux, etc.--Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 271. Letter
of Francastel: "At least three thousand monopolist aristocrats have been
arrested at Nantes.... and this is not the last purification."]

[Footnote 4238: Decrees of May 4, 15, 19, 20 and 23, and of August 30,
1793.--Decrees of July 26, August 15, September II, 1793, and February
24, 1794.--Camille Boursier, "Essai sur la Terreur en Anjou," p.
254. (Letter of Buissart to his friend Maximilian Robespierre, Arras,
Pluviose 14, year II.) "we are dying with starvation in the midst of
abundance; I think that the mercantile aristocracy ought to be killed
out like the nobles and priests. The communes, with the help of a
storehouse of food and goods must alone be allowed to trade. This idea,
well carried out, can be realized; then, the benefits of trade will turn
to the advantage of the Republic, that is to say, to the advantage of
buyer and seller."]

[Footnote 4239: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 49. (Documents on the
levy of revolutionary taxes, Belfort, Brumaire 30, year II.) "Verneur,
sr., taxed at ten thousand livres, for having withheld goods deposited
with him by his sister, in order to save them from the coming taxation."
Campardon I., 292. (Judgments of the revolutionary commission at
Strasbourg.)--"The head-clerk in Hecht's apothecary shop is accused of
selling two ounces of rhubarb and manna at fifty-four sous; Hecht, the
proprietor, is condemned to a fine of fifteen thousand livres. Madeleine
Meyer, at Rosheim, a retailer, is accused of selling a candle for ten
sous and is condemned to a fine of one thousand livres, payable in three
days. Braun, butcher and bar-keeper, accused of having sold a glass of
wine for twenty sous, is condemned to a fine of forty thousand francs,
to be imprisoned until this is paid, and to exposure in the pillory
before his own house for four hours, with this inscription: debaser
of the national currency."--"Recueil de Pieces, etc., at Strasbourg,"
(supplement, pp. 21, 30, 64). "Marie Ursule Schnellen and Marie
Schultzmann, servant, accused of monopolising milk. The former is
sentenced to the pillory for one day under a placard, monopoliser of
milk, and to hold in one hand the money and, in the other, the milk-pot;
the other, a servant with citizen Benner. ... he, the said Benner,
is sen