volent who seek every
opportunity to humble us."--Ibid.,359. "On Floreal 29, between five and
six o'clock in the morning, a patrol of about fifteen men of the Bonnet
Rouge section, commanded by a sort of commissary, stop subsistences on
the Orleans road and take them to their section."]

[Footnote 4276: Dauban, 341. (Letter of the Commissioner on
Subsistences, Germinal 23.) "The supplies are stolen under the people's
eyes, or what they get is of inferior quality." The commissioner is
surprised to find that, having provided so much, so little reaches the
consumers.]

[Footnote 4277: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vol.1411. (Reports
of August 11-12 and 31, and Sept. 1, 1793.)--Archives Nationales, F. 7,
31167.) (Reports of Nivose 7 and 12, year II.)]

[Footnote 4278: Dauban, "Paris" en 1794, 60, 68, 69, 71, 82, 93, 216,
231.--Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris," 187, 190.--Archives Nationales, F.
7, 31167. (Report of Leharivel, Nivose 7.)--The gunsmiths employed by
the government likewise state that they have for a long time had nothing
to eat but bread and cheese.]

[Footnote 4279: Dauban, 231. (Report of Perriere, Ventose 24.) "Butter
of which they make a god."]

[Footnote 4280: Ibid., 68. (Report of Ventose 2.)]

[Footnote 4281: Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Report of Nivose
28.)--Dauban, 144. (Report of Nivose 14.)]

[Footnote 4282: Dauban, 81. (Report of Latour-Lamontagne, Ventose 4.)]

[Footnote 4283: "Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," 83.
"Friday, June 15, 1794, a proclamation is made that all who have any
provisions in their houses, wheat, barley, rye, flour and even bread,
must declare them within twenty four hours under penalty of being
regarded as an enemy of the country and declared 'suspect,' put under
arrest and tried by the courts."--Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution
Francaise," II.. 214. A seizure is made at Passy of two pigs and forty
pounds of butter, six bushels of beans, etc., in the domicile of
citizen Lucet who had laid in supplies for sixteen persons of his own
household.]

[Footnote 4284: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68. Orders of the
Committee of Public Safety, Pluviose 23, referring to the law of
Brumaire 25, forbidding the extraction of more than fifteen pounds of
bran from a quintal of flour. Order directing the removal of bolters
from bakeries and mills; he who keeps or conceals these on his property
"shall be treated as 'suspect' and put under arrest until peace is