tenced to a fine of three hundred livres, payable in three
days."--"Dorothy Franz, convicted of having sold two heads of salad at
twenty sous, and of thus having depreciated the value of assignats, is
sentenced to a fine of three thousand livres, imprisonment for six weeks
and exposure in the pillory for two hours."--Ibid., I., 18. "A grocer,
accused of having sold sugar-candy at lower than the rate, although not
comprised in the list, is sentenced to one hundred thousand livres fine
and imprisonment until peace is declared."--Orders by Saint-Just and
Lebas, Nivose 3, year II. "The criminal court of the department of the
Lower-Rhine is ordered to destroy the house of any one convicted of
having made sales below the rates fixed by the maximum," consequently,
the house of one Schauer, a furrier, is torn down, Nivose 7.]

[Footnote 4240: Archives des Affaires Etrangeres, vol. 322. (Letter by
Haupt, Belfort, Brumaire 3, year II.) "On my arrival here, I found the
law of the maximum promulgated and in operation... (but) the necessary
steps have not been taken to prevent a new monopoly by the country
people, who have flocked in to the shops of the dealers, carried off all
their goods and created a factitious dearth."]

[Footnote 4241: Archives Nationales, F.7, 4421. (Petitions of merchants
and shop-keepers at Troyes in relation to the revolutionary tax,
especially of hatters, linen, cotton and woollen manufacturers, weavers
and grocers. There is generally a loss of one-half, and sometimes of
three-fourths of the purchase money.)]

[Footnote 4242: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.330. (Letter of
Brutus, Marseilles, Nivose 6, year II.) "Since the maximum everything is
wanting at Marseilles."--Ibid. (Letter by Soligny and Gosse, Thionville,
Nivose 5, year II.) "No peasant is willing to bring anything to
market... They go off six leagues to get a better price and thus the
communes which they once supplied are famishing.. According as they are
paid in specie or assignats the difference often amounts to two hundred
per cent., and nearly always to one hundred per cent."--"Un Sejour en
France," pp. 188-189.--Archives Nationales, D.. P I., file 2. (Letter of
Representative Albert, Germinal 19, year II., and of Joffroy,
national agent, district of Bar-sur-Aube, Germinal 5, year III.
"The municipalities have always got themselves exempted from the
requisitions, which all fall on the farmers and proprietors unable to
satisfy them..