" Are they going to be relieved by the new
government which the Convention imposes on them with thunders of
artillery and in which it perpetuates itself?[146] -
* Brumaire 28, " Most of the workmen in the 'Temple' and 'Gravilliers'
sections have done no work for want of bread."
* Brumaire 24, "Citizens of all classes refuse to mount guard because
they have nothing to eat."
* Brumaire 25, "In the 'Gravilliers' section the women say that they
have sold all that they possessed, while others, in the 'Faubourg-
Antoine' section, declare that it would be better to be shot down."
* Brumaire 30, "A woman beside herself came and asked a baker to kill
her children as she had nothing to give them to eat."
* Frimaire 1, 2, 3, and 4, "In many of the sections bread is given out
only in the evening, in others at one o'clock in the morning, and of
very poor quality.... Several sections yesterday had no bread."
* Frimaire 7, the inspectors declare that "the hospitals soon will not
be vast enough to hold the sick and the wretched."
* Frimaire 14, At the central market a woman nursing her child sunk
down with inanition." A few days before this, "a man fell down from
weakness, on his way to Bourg l'Abb?.
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