, XVIII., 320. (Meeting of Brumaire 11, year II. Report by
Bar?re.) - Meillan, 17. Already, before the 31st May: "The tribune
resounded with charges against monopoly, every man being a monopolist
who was not reduced to living on daily wages or on alms."
[80] Decrees of July 26, 1793, Sept. 11 and 29; Brumaire 11, and
Vent?se 6, year II.
[81] Moniteur, XVIII., 359. "Brumaire 16, year II. Sentence of death
of Pierre Gourdier, thirty-six years of age, stock-broker, resident in
Paris, rue Bellefond, convicted of having monopolized and concealed in
his house a large quantity of bread, in order to bread scarcity in the
midst of abundance." He had gastritis and could eat nothing but panada
made with toast, and the baker who furnished this gave him thirty
pieces at a time (Wallon, II., 155).
[82] Journal of the debates of the Jacobin Club, No. 532, Brumaire
20, year II. (Plan of citizen Dupr?, presented in the Convention by a
deputation of the Arcis Club.) - Dauban, "Paris en 1794," p. 483 (a
project similar to the former, presented to the Committee of Public
Safety by the Jacobin Club of Montereau, Thermidor, year II.)
[83] These proposals should come to haunt western civilization for a
long time.
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