Reports of
August 6 and 7, 1793.)]

[Footnote 4270: Dauban, 144. (Reports of Ventose 19.)]

[Footnote 4271: Dauban, 199. (Reports of Ventose 19.)--Dauban, "La
Demagogie en 1793," p. 470. "Scarcely had the peasants arrived when
harpies in women's clothes attacked them and carried off their goods....
Yesterday, a peasant was beaten for wanting to sell his food at the
'maximum' rate." (October 19, 1793.)--Dauban, "Paris en 1794," 144,
173, 199. (Reports of Ventose 13, 17 and 19.)--Archives des Affaires
etrangeres, vol. 1410. (Reports of June 26 and 27, 1793.) Wagons and
boats are pillaged for candles and soap.]

[Footnote 4272: Dauban, 45. (Reports of Pluviose 17.) 222. (Reports of
Ventose 23.)--160. (Reports of Ventose 15.)--340. (Reports of Germinal
28.)--87. (Reports of Ventose 5.)]

[Footnote 4273: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Order of Paganel,
Castres, Pluviose 6 and 7, year II. "The steps taken to obtain returns
of food have not fulfilled the object.... The statements made are either
false or inexact.") Cf., for details, the correspondence of the other
representatives on mission.--Dauban," Paris en 1794." 190. (Speech by
Fouquier-Tinville in the Convention, Ventose 19.) "The mayor of Pont St.
Maxence has dared to say that 'when Paris sends us sugar we will then
see about letting her have our eggs and butter.'"]

[Footnote 4274: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol. 1411. (Reports
of August 7 and 8, 1793.) "Seven thousand five hundred pounds of bread,
about to be taken out, have been stopped at the barriers."--Dauban, 45.
(Orders of the day. Pluviose 17.) Lamps are set up at all the posts,
"especially at la Greve and Passy, so as to light up the river and
see that no eatables pass outside."--Mercier, I., 355.--Dauban, 181.
(Reports of Ventose 18.)--210. (Reports of Ventose 21.)--190. Speech by
Fouquier, Ventose 19.) "The butchers in Paris who cannot sell above the
maximum carry the meat they buy to the Sevres butchers and sell it at
any price they please. "--257. (Reports of Ventose 27.) "You see, about
ten o'clock in the evening, aristocrats and other egoists coming to
the dealers who supply Egalite's mansion (the Duke of Orleans) and
buy chickens and turkeys which they carefully conceal under their
overcoats."]

[Footnote 4275: Dauban, 255. (Orders of the day by Henriot, Ventose 27.)
"I have to request my brethren in arms not to take any rations whatever.
This little deprivation will silence the male