administrators of Bapaume, Prairial 24.--Letter of the municipality of
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Prairial 24.)]

[Footnote 42115: Ibid.,, AF., II., 73. (Letter of the municipality of
Brionne, district of Bernay, Prairial 7.) The farmers do not bring
in their wheat because they sell it elsewhere at the rate of fifteen
hundred and two thousand francs the sack of three hundred and thirty
pounds.]

[Footnote 42116: Ibid., AF., II., 71. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of
the district of Meaux, Messidor 2.) "Their fate is shared by many of the
rural communes" and the whole district has been reduced to this dearth
"to increase the resources of Paris and the armies."]

[Footnote 42117: Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports of the
Police, Pluviose 6, year III.)--Ibid., Germinal 16. "A letter from the
department of Drome states that they are dying of hunger there, bread
selling at three francs the pound."]

[Footnote 42118: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 70. (Deliberations of
the council-general of Franciade, Thermidor 9, year III.)]

[Footnote 42119: Ibid. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of the district
of Saint-Germain, Thermidor 10.)--Delecluze, "Souvenirs de Soixante
Annees," p. 10. (The Delecluze family live in Mendon in 1794 and for
most of 1795. M. Delecluze, senior, and his son go to Meaux and obtain
of a farmer a bag of good flour weighing three hundred and twenty five
pounds for about ten louis d'or and fetch it home, taking the greatest
pains to keep it concealed. Both father and son "after having covered
the precious sack with hay and straw in the bottom of the cart, follow
it on foot at some distance as the peasant drives along." Madame
Delecluze kneads the bread herself and bakes it.]

[Footnote 42120: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 74. The following shows
some of the municipal expenditures. (Deliberations of the commune of
Annecy, Thermidor 8, year II I.) "Amount received by the commune from
the government, 1,200,000 francs. Fraternal subscriptions, 400,000
francs. Forced loan, 2,400,000 francs. Amount arising from grain granted
by the government, but not paid for, 400,000 francs." (Letter from the
municipality of Lille, Fructidor 7 ) "The deficit, at the time we took
hold of the government, which, owing to the difference between the price
of grain bought and the price obtained for bread distributed among the
necessitous, had amounted to 2,270,023 francs, so increased in Thermidor
as to amount to 8,312,956 francs."