as his court is enclosed he
might likewise content himself with thirty chickens and then be able
to satisfy the requisitions." This document is signed "Bertrand,
Agen."--Mauchin, on the strength of it, is incarcerated at Troyes "at
his own expense."]

[Footnote 42100: Ibid. Letter from the district of Bar sur Seine,
Ventose 14, year III. Since the abolition of the "maximum," "the
inhabitants travel thirty and forty leagues to purchase wheat." (Letter
from the municipality of Troyes, Ventose 15.) "According to the price
of grain, which we keep on buying, by agreement, bread will cost fifteen
sous (the pound) next decade."]

[Footnote 42101: Schmidt, "Pariser Zustaende," 145-220. The re-opening of
the Bourse, April 25, 1795; ibid., 322, II., 105.--"Memoirs of Theobald
Wolf," vol. I., p.200, (February 3, 1796). At Havre, the louis d'or
is then worth five thousand francs, and the ecu of six francs in
proportion. At Paris (February 12), the louis d'or is worth six thousand
five hundred; a dinner for two persons at the Palais Royal costs one
thousand five hundred francs.--Mayer, ("Frankreich in 1796.") He gives
a dinner for ten persons which costs three hundred thousand francs in
assignats. At this rate a cab ride costs one thousand francs, and by the
hour six thousand francs.]

[Footnote 42102: "Correspondance de Mallet du Pan avec la cour de
Vienne," I., 253 (July 18, 1795). "It is not the same now as in the
early days of the Revolution, which then bore heavily only on certain
classes of society; now, everybody feels the scourge, hourly, in every
department of civil life. Goods and provisions advance daily (in price)
in much greater proportion than the decline in assignats.... Paris is
really a city of furnishing shops... The immense competition for these
objects raises all goods twenty five per cent. a week.... It is the same
with provisions. A sack of wheat weighing three quintals is now worth
nine thousand francs, a pound of beef thirty six francs, a pair of shoes
one hundred francs. It is impossible for artisans to raise their wages
proportionately with such a large and rapid increase."--Cf. "Diary of
Lord Malmesbury," III., 290 (October 27, 1796). After 1795, the gains
of the peasants, land owners and producers are very large; from 1792 to
1796 they accumulate and hide away most of the current coin. They were
courageous enough and smart enough to protect their hoard against the
violence of the revolutionary governme