(Sentiment of acquisiton). (SR.)
[29] Taine's remark in a footnote. (SR.)
[30] Archives Nationales, D., 55, I., file 2. (Letter by Joifroy,
national agent in the district of Bar-sur-Aube, Germinal 5, year III.)
"Most of the farmers, to escape the requisition, have sold their
horses and replaced them with oxen." - Memoirs (in ms.) of M. Dufort
de Cheverney (communicated by M. Robert de Cr?vec?ur). In June,
1793, "the requisitions fall like hail, every week, on wheat, hay,
straw, oats, etc.," all at prices fixed by the contractors, who make
deductions, postpone and pay with difficulty. Then come requisitions
for hogs. "This was depriving all the country folks of what they
lived on." As the requisitions called for live hogs, there was a hog
St. Bartholomew. Everybody killed his pig and salted it down."
(Environs of Blois.) In relation to refusing to gather in crops, see
further on. - Dauban, "Paris in 1794, p.229. (Ventose 24, general
orders by Henriot.) "Citizen Guillon being on duty outside the walls,
saw with sorrow that citizens were cutting their wheat to feed rabbits
with."
[31] Decree of Messidor 23, year II., on the consolidation with the
national domain of the assets and liabilities of hospitals and other
charitable institutions.
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