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[20] Mallet-Dupan, "Memoires," II., 29. (February 1, 1794.) "The late
crop in France was generally good, and, in some provinces, it was
above the average... I have seen the statements of two returns made
from twenty-seven departments; they declare an excess of fifteen,
twenty, thirty and thirty-five thousand bushels of grain. There is no
real dearth."
[21] Schmidt, ibid., I., 110, and following pages. - Buchez et Roux,
XX., 416. (Speeches of Lequinio, November 27, 1792.) - Moniteur,
XVII., 2. (Letter by Clement, Puy-de-Dome, June 15, 1793.) "For the
past fifteen days bread has been worth sixteen and eighteen sous the
pound. There is the most frightful distress in our mountains. The
government distributes one-eighth of a bushel to each person,
everybody being obliged to wait two days to take his turn. One woman
was smothered and several were wounded."
[22] Cf. "La Revolution," I., 208; II., 294, 205, 230. - Buchez et
Roux, XX., 431. (Report of Lecointe-Puyraveau, Nov. 30, 1792.) (Mobs
of four, five and six thousand men in the departments of Eure-et-
Loire, Eure, Orme, Calvados, Indre-et-Loire, Loiret, and Sarthe cut
down the prices of produce.
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