France." (Amiens, Jan. 30, 1795.)
Archives Nationales. AF.,II., 74. (Deliberation of the commune of
Amiens, Thermidor 8, and Fructidor 7, year III.)]

[Footnote 42124: "Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," p. 97.
(The women stop carts loaded with wheat, keep them all night, stone and
wound Representative Bernier, and succeed in getting, each, eight pounds
of wheat.)]

[Footnote 42125: Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 73. (Letter of the
municipality of Dieppe, Prairial 22.)--AF.,II., 74. (Letter of the
municipality of Vervins, Messidor 7. Letter of the municipality of
Lille, Fructidor 7.)]

[Footnote 42126: "Correspondance de Mallet du Pan avec la Cour de
Vienne," I., 90. Ibid., 131. One month later a quintal of flour at Lyons
is worth two hundred francs and a pound of bread forty-five sous.]

[Footnote 42127: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 13. (Letter of the
deputies extraordinary of the three administrative bodies of Chartres,
Thermidor 15: "In the name of this commune dying of hunger ")--"The
inhabitants of Chartres have not even been allowed to receive their
rents in grain; all has been poured into the government storehouses."]

[Footnote 42128: Ibid. (Petition of the commune of La Rochelle,
Fructidor 25, that of Painboeuf, Fructidor 9, that of the municipality of
Nantes, Thermidor 14, that of Rouen, Fructidor 1.)--Ibid., AF.,II, 72.
(Letter of the commune of Bayonne, Fructidor 1.) "Penury of provisions
for more than two years.... The municipality, the past six months, is
under the cruel necessity of reducing its subjects to half-a-pound
of corn-bread per day.... at the rate of twenty-five sous the pound,
although the pound costs over five francs." After the suppression of the
"maximum" it loses about twenty-five thousand francs per day.]

[Footnote 42129: Ibid. (Letter of Representative Porcher, Caen, Prairial
24, Messidor 3 and 26. Letter of the municipality of Caen, Messidor 3.)]

[Footnote 42130: Ibid. AF.,II., 71. (Letter of the municipality of
Auxerre, Messidor 19.) "We have kept alive thus far through all sorts of
expedients as if by miracle. It has required incalculable efforts, great
expenditure, and really supernatural means to accomplish it. But there
is still one month between this and the end of Thermidor. How are
we going to live! Our people, the majority of whom are farmers and
artisans, are rationed at half-a-pound a day for each person and this
will last but ten or twelve days at most."