n as the crop is
gathered, all the grain will be taken away, without leaving anything to
live on. It is stated that all salt provisions are going to be taken and
the agriculturists reduced to the horrors of a famine."]

[Footnote 4292: Moniteur, XXII., 21. (Speech by Lindet, September 7,
1794.) "We have long feared that the ground would not be tilled, that
the meadows would be covered with cattle while the proprietors and
farmers were kept in prison." Archives Nationales, D., P I, No. I.
(Letter from the district of Bar-sur-Seine, Ventose 14, year III.) "The
'maximum' causes the concealment of grain. The quit-claims ruined the
consumers and rendered them desperate. How many wretches, indeed, have
been arrested,--attacked, confiscated, fined and ruined for having
gone off fifteen or twenty leagues to get grain with which to feed their
wives and children?"]

[Footnote 4293: AF., II., 106. (Circular by Dartigoyte, Floreal
25.) "You must apply this rule, that is, make the municipal officers
responsible for the non cultivation of the soil." "If any citizen
allows himself a different kind of bread, other than that which all the
cultivators and laborers in the commune use, I shall have him brought
before the courts conjointly with the municipality as being the first
culprit guilty of having tolerated it... Reduce, if necessary, three
fourths of the bread allowed to non laboring citizens because muscadins
and muscadines: have resources and, besides, lead an idle life."]

[Footnote 4294: AF., II., III. (Letters of Ferry, Bourges, Messidor 23,
to his "brethren in the popular club," and "to the citoyennes (women) of
Indre-et-Cher.")]

[Footnote 4295: Moniteur, XXI., 171. (Letter from Avignon, Messidor 9,
and letter of the Jacobins of Arles.]

[Footnote 4296: Moniteur, XXI., 184. (Decree of Messidor 21.)]

[Footnote 4297: Gouverneur Morris. (correspondence with Washington.
Letters of March 27 and April 10, 1794.) He says that there is no record
of such an early spring. Rye has headed out and clover is in flower. It
is astonishing to see apricots in April as large as pigeons' eggs.
In the south, where the dearth is most severe, he has good reason to
believe that the ground is supplying the inhabitants with food. A frost
like that of the year before in the month of May (1793) would help the
famine more than all the armies and fleets in Europe.]

[Footnote 4298: Stalin was to test the system and prove Taine right.
(SR.)]

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