h 4.]

[Footnote 4254: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vols. 331 and 332.
(Letters of Desgranges, Frimaire 3 and 8 and 10.) "Many of the peasants
have eaten no bread for a fortnight. Most of them no longer work."
Buchez et Roux, XVIII., 346. (Session of the convention, Brumaire 14,
Speech by Legendre.)]

[Footnote 4255: Moniteur, xix., 671. (Speech by Tallien, March 12,
1794.) Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 423. (Letter of Jullien, June 15, 1794.)]

[Footnote 4256: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 111. (Letters of Michaud,
Chateauroux, Pluviose 18 and 19, year II.)]

[Footnote 4257: Dauban, "Paris en 1794," 410, 492, 498. (Letters frora
the national agent of the district of Sancoins, Thermidor 9, year II.;
from the Directory of Allier, Thermidor 9; from the national agent of
the district of Villefort, Thermidor 9.)--Gouverneur Morris, April 10,
1794, says in a letter to Washington that the famine in many places is
extremely severe. Men really die of starvation who have the means to buy
bread if they could only get it.]

[Footnote 4258: Volney, "Voyage en Orient," II., 344. "When
Constantinople lacks food twenty provinces are starved for its supply."]

[Footnote 4259: Archives Nationales, AF., II, 46, 68. (Decree of
committee of Public Safety.) The Treasury pays over to the city of Paris
for subsistence, on Aug. 2, 1793, two millions, August 14, three, and
September 2nd, one million; September 8, 16, and 23, one million each,
and so on.... Between August 7, 1793 and Germinal '9, year II., the
Treasury paid over to Paris, thirty one millions.]

[Footnote 4260: Ibid, AF., II., 68. Decrees of Brumaire 14, Nivose 7 and
Germinal 22 on the departments assigned to the supply of Paris. Buchez
et Roux, XXVIII., 489. (Speech by Danton in Jacobin club, Aug.28, '793.)
"I constantly asserted that it was necessary to give all to the mayor of
Paris if he exacted it to feed its inhabitants.. .. Let us sacrifice one
hundred and ten millions and save Paris and through it, the Republic."]

[Footnote 4261: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vols. 1410 and 1411.
Reports of June 20 and 21, 1793, July 21, 22, 28, 29 and 31, and every
day of the months of August and September, 1793. Schmidt, "Tableaux de
la Revolution Francaise," vol. II., passim--Dauban, "Paris in 1794,"
(especially throughout Ventose, year II.).--Archives Nationales, F.7,
31167. (Reports for Nivose, year II.)]

[Footnote 4262: Dauban, "Paris en 1794,". (Report of Ventose 2.)