Zustande," I., 224. (The Seine is frozen
over on November 23 and January 23, the thermometer standing at sixteen
degrees (Centigrade) below zero.)--Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris."
(Reports of the Police, Pluviose 2, 3 and 4.)]

[Footnote 42138: Schmidt, "Pariser Zustande," I., 228, and following
pages. (February 25, the distribution of bread is reduced to one and
one-half pounds per person; March 17, to one and onehalf pounds for
workmen and one pound for others. Final reduction to one-quarter of a
pound, March 31.)--Ibid., 251, for ulterior rates.--Dufort de Cheverney,
(MS. Memoires, August, 1795.) M. de Cheverney takes up his quarters at
the old Louvre with his friend Sedaine. "I had assisted them with food
all I could: they owned to me that, without this, they would have died
of starvation notwithstanding their means."]

[Footnote 42139: Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports of Germinal 15
and 27, and Messidor 28, year III., Brumaire 14 and Frimaire 23, year
IV.)--Ibid. (Germinal 15, year III.) Butter is at eight francs the
pound, eggs seven francs for four ounces.--Ibid., (Messidor 19) bread is
at sixteen francs the pound, (Messidor 28) butter at fourteen francs the
pound, (Brumaire 29) flour at 14,000 francs the bag of 325 pounds.]

[Footnote 42140: Ibid. (Report of Germinal 12, year III.) "The eating
houses and pastry-cooks are better supplied than ever."?"Memoires
(manuscript) of M. de Cheverney." "My sister-in-law, with more than
forty thousand livres income, registered in the 'Grand Ledger,' was
reduced to cultivating her garden, assisted by her two chambermaids.
M. de Richebourg, formerly intendant-general of the Post-Office, had to
sell at one time a clock and at another time a wardrobe to live on. 'My
friends,' he said to us one day, 'I have been obliged to put my clock in
the pot.' "--Schmidt. (Report of Frimaire 17, year IV.) "A frequenter of
the Stock-Exchange sells a louis at five thousand francs. He dines for
one thousand francs and loudly exclaims: 'I have dined at four francs
ten sous. They are really superb, these assignats! I couldn't have dined
so well formerly at twelve francs.'"]

[Footnote 42141: Schmidt. (Reports of Frimaire 9, year IV.) "The reports
describe the sad condition of those who, with small incomes and having
sold their clothes, are selling their furniture, being, so to say, at
their last piece; and, soon without anything, are reduced to the last
extremity by committing suicide."-