" - Felix Rocquam, ibid., 116.
(Report by Fourcroy on Brittany.) "The condition of rural structures
everywhere demands considerable capital. But no advances, based on
any lasting state of things, can be made." - Ibid., 236. (Report of
Lacu?e on the departments around Paris.) "The doubtful owners of
national possessions cultivate badly and let things largely go to
ruin."
[18] Reports by pr?fets, years X. and XI. In general, the effect of
the partition of communal possessions was disastrous, especially
pasture and mountain grounds. - (Doubs.) "The partition of the
communal property has contributed, in all the communes, rather to the
complete ruin of the poor than to any amelioration of their fate." -
(Loz?re.) "The partition of the communal property by the law of June
10, 1792, has proved very injurious to cultivation." These partitions
were numerous. (Moselle.) "Out of six hundred and eighty-six
communes, one hundred and seven have divided per capitum, five hundred
and seventy-nine by families, and one hundred and nineteen have
remained intact."
[19] Ibid. (Moselle.) Births largely increase in 1792. "But this is
an exceptional year. All kinds of abuses, paper-money, the non-
payment of taxes and claims, the partition in the communes, the sale
for nothing of national possessions, has spread so much comfort among
the people that the poorer classes, who are the most numerous, have
had no dread of increasing their families1 to which they hope some day
to leave their fields and render them happy.
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