The three delegates of the Convention
disposed to interfere have their lives saved only on condition of
announcing the rate dictated to them. - Ibid., 409. (Letter of
Roland, Nov.27, 1792.) - XXI., 198. (Another letter by Roland, Dec.
6, 1792.) "All convoys are stopped at Lissy, la Fert?, Milan, la
Fert?-sous-Jouarre . . . Carts loaded with wheat going to Paris
have been forced to go back near Lonjumeau and near Meaux."
[23] Archives Nationales, F. 7, 3265. (Letter of David, cultivator,
and administrator of the department of Seine-Inf?rieure, Oct.11, 1792;
letter of the special committee of Rouen, Oct.22; letter of the
delegates of the executive power, Oct.20, etc.) "Reports from all
quarters state that the farmers who drive to market are considered and
treated in their parishes as aristocrats. . . . . Each department
keeps to itself: they mutually repel each other."
[24] Buchez et Roux, XX., 409. (Letter of Roland, Nov. 271 1792.)
"The circulation of grain has for a long time encountered the greatest
obstacles; scarcely a citizen now dares to do that business." - Ibid.,
417. (Speech by Lequinio.) "The monopoly of wheat by land-owners and
farmers is almost universal.
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