) "No citizen shall keep in his house more than four months'
supplies. . . . Every citizen with more than this will deposit the
surplus in the granary 'd'abondance' provided for the purpose. . .
. Immediately on receipt of the present order, the municipality will
summon all citizens that can thresh and proceed immediately, without
delay, to the threshing-ground, under penalty of being prosecuted as
refractory to the law. . . . The revolutionary army is specially
charged with the execution of the articles of this order, and the
revolutionary tribunals, following this army with the enforcement of
the penalties inflicted according to this order." - Other documents
show us that the revolutionary army, organized in the department of
Doubs and in the five neighboring departments, comprises, in all, two
thousand four hundred men. (Ibid., vol., 1411. Letter of Meyenfeld
to Minister Desforges, Brumaire 27, year II.) - Archives Nationales,
AF., II., 111. (Order of Couthon, Maignet, Chateauneuf, Randon, La
Porte and Albitte, Commune-Affranchie, Brumaire 9, year II.,
establishing in the ten surrounding departments a revolutionary army
of one thousand men per department, for the conscription of grain.
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