" Then, the next day: "Famine is beginning."[45] - Near by,
in the Montbrison district, in February, 1794, "there is no food or
provisions left for the people;" all has been taken by requisition and
carried off, even seed for planting, so that the fields lie
fallow.[46] - At Marseilles, "since the maximum, everything is
lacking; even the fishermen no longer go out (on the sea) so that
there is no supply of fish to live on."[47] - At Cahors, in spite of
multiplied requisitions, the Directory of Lot and Representative
Taillefer[48] state that "the inhabitants, for more than eight days,
are reduced wholly to maslin bread composed of one-fifth of wheat and
the rest of barley, barley-malt and millet." - At N?mes,[49] to make
the grain supply last, which is giving out, the bakers and all private
persons are ordered not to sift the meal, but to leave the bran in it
and knead and bake the "dough such as it is." - At Grenoble,[50] "the
bakers have stopped baking; the country people no longer bring wheat
in; the dealers hide away their goods, or put them in the hands of
neighborly officials, or send them off." - " It goes from bad to
worse," write the agents of Huningue;[51] one might say even, that
they would give this or that article to their cattle rather than sell
it in conformity with the tax.
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