declared."--Berryat Saint Prix, 357, 362. At Toulouse, three persons are
condemned to death for monopoly. At Montpelier, a baker, two dealers
and a merchant are guillotined for having invoiced, concealed and kept a
certain quantity of gingerbread cakes intended solely for consumption by
anti-revolutionaries.]

[Footnote 4285: "Un Sejour en France," (April 22, 1794).]

[Footnote 4286: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 236. (Proclamation of the
representatives on mission in Finisterre.) "Magistrates of the people
tell all farmers and owners of land that their crops belong to the
nation and that they are simply its depositaries." Archives Nationales,
AF., II., 92. (Orders by Bo, representative in Cautal, Pluviose 8.)
"Whereas, as all citizens in a Republic form one family.... all those
who refuse to assist their brethren and neighbors under the specious
pretext that they have not sufficient supplies must be regarded as
'suspect' citizens."]

[Footnote 4287: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68. (Orders of the
Committee of Public Safety, Prairial 28.) The maximum price is fourteen
francs the quintal; after Messidor 30, it is not to be more than eleven
francs.]

[Footnote 4288: Ibid., AF., II., 116 and 106, orders of Paganel,
Castres, Pluviose 6 and 7. Orders of Dartigoyte, Floreal 23, 25, and
29.]

[Footnote 4289: Ibid., AF., II., 147. (Orders of Maignet, Avignon,
Prairial 2.)]

[Footnote 4290: Moniteur, XXIII., 397 (Speech by Dubois-Crance, May
5, 1795.) "The Committee on Commerce (and Supplies) had thirty-five
thousand employees in its service."]

[Footnote 4291: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68. (Orders of the
Committee of Public Safety, Prairial 28.) Decret of Messidor 8, year II.
"All kinds of grain and the hay of the present crop are required by the
government." A new estimate is made, each farmer being obliged to state
the amount of his crop; verification, confiscation in case of inaccurate
declarations, and orders to thrash out the sheaves.--Dauban, 490.
(Letter of the national agent of Villefort, Thermidor 19.) Calculations
and the reasoning of farmers with a view to avoid sowing and planting:
"Not so much on account of the lack of hands as not to ruin oneself by
sowing and raising an expensive crop which, they say, affords them
small returns when they sell their grain at so low a price." Archives
Nationales, AF., II. 106. (Letter of the national agent in Gers and
Haute-Garonne, Floreal 25.) "They say here, that as soo