]

[Footnote 4263: Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I., 355.]

[Footnote 4264: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, 141 I. (Reports of
August 1 and 2, 1763.) "At one o'clock in the morning, we were surprised
to find men and women lying along the sides of the houses patiently
waiting for the shops to open."--Dauban, 231. (Report of Ventose 24.) To
obtain the lights of a hog, at the slaughter house near the Jardin des
Plantes, at the rate of three francs ten sous, instead of thirty sous as
formerly, women "were lying on the ground with little baskets by their
side and waiting four and five hours."]

[Footnote 4265: Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports of Nivose 9
and 28.) "The streets of Paris are always abominable; they are certainly
afraid to use those brooms." Dauban, 120. (Ventose 9.) "The rue St.
Anne is blocked up with manure. In that part of it near the Rue Louvois,
heaps of this stretch along the walls for the past fortnight."]

[Footnote 4266: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.1411. (Reports of
August 9, 1793.) Mercier, I., 353.--Dauban, 530. (Reports of Fructidor
27, year II. "There are always great gatherings at the coal depots. They
begin at midnight. one, two o'clock in the morning. Many of the habitues
take advantage of the obscurity and commit all sorts of indecencies."]

[Footnote 4267: Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise,"
II., 155. (Reports of Ventose 25.)--Dauban, 188. (Reports of Ventose
19).--Ibid., (Reports of Ventose 2.) Ibid., 126. (Reports of Ventose
10.)--Archives Nationales, F. 7, 31167. (Reports of Nivose 28, year II.)
The women "denounce the butchers and pork sellers who pay no attention
to the maximum law, giving only the poorest meat to the poor." Ibid.,
(Reports of Nivose 6.) "It is frightful to see what the butchers give
the people."]

[Footnote 4268: Mercier, 363. "The women struggled with all their might
against the men and contracted the habit of swearing. The last on the
row knew how to worm themselves up to the head of it." Buchez et Roux,
XXVIII., 364. ("Journal de la Montague," July 28, 1793. "One citizen was
killed on Sunday, July 21, one of the Gravilliers (club) in trying
to hold on to a six pound loaf of bread which he had just secured for
himself and family. Another had a cut on his arm the same day in the Rue
Froid-Manteau. A pregnant woman was wounded and her child died in her
womb."]

[Footnote 4269: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.1410. (