]

[Footnote 42131: Meissner, "Voyage a Paris," 339. "There was not a
morsel of bread in our inn. I went myself to five or six bakeries and
pastry shops and found them all stripped." He finds in the last
one about a dozen of small Savoy biscuits for which he pays fifteen
francs.--See, for the military proceedings of the government in relation
to bread, the orders of the Committee of Public Safety, most of them by
the hand of Lindet, AF., II., 68-74.]

[Footnote 42132: Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris," vols. II. and
III.,passim.]

[Footnote 42133: Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 68. (Orders of Ventose
20, year III.; Germinal 19 and 20; Messidor 8, etc.)]

[Footnote 42134: ibid. Orders of Nivose 5 and 22.]

[Footnote 42135: Ibid. Orders of Pluviose 19, Ventose 5, Floreal 4 and
24. (The fourteen brewers which the Republic keeps agoing for itself
at Dunkirk are excepted.)--The proceedings are the same in relation
to other necessary articles,--returns demanded of nuts, rape-seed, and
other seeds or fruits producing oil, also the hoofs of cattle and sheep,
with requisitions for every other article entering into the manufacture
of oil, and orders to keep oil-mills agoing. "All administrative
bodies will see that the butchers remove the fat from their meat before
offering it for sale, that they do not themselves make candles out of
it, and that they do not sell it to soap-factories, etc. "--(Orders of
Veridemiaire 28, year III.) The executive committee will collect eight
hundred yoke of oxen and distribute them among the dealers in hay in
order to transport wood and coal from the woods and collieries to the
yards. They will distribute proportionately eight hundred sets of wheels
and harness. The wagoners will be paid and guarded the same as military
convoys, and drafted as required. To feed the oxen, the district
administrators will take by pre-emption the necessary fields and
pasturages, etc." (Orders of Pluviose 10, year III.)]

[Footnote 42136: Moniteur, XXIV., 397.--Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris."
(Reports of Frimaire 16, year IV.) "Citizens in the departments wonder
how it is that Paris costs them five hundred and forty six millions per
month merely for bread when they are starving. This isolation of Paris,
for which all the benefits of the Revolution are exclusively reserved.
has the worst effect on the public mind."--Meissner, 345.]

[Footnote 42137: Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I.,
355-357.--Schmidt, "Pariser