. . (but) the necessary
steps have not been taken to prevent a new monopoly by the country
people, who have flocked in to the shops of the dealers, carried off
all their goods and created a factitious dearth."
[41] Archives Nationales, F.7, 4421. (Petitions of merchants and
shop-keepers at Troyes in relation to the revolutionary tax,
especially of hatters, linen, cotton and woollen manufacturers,
weavers and grocers. There is generally a loss of one-half, and
sometimes of three-fourths of the purchase money.)
[42] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.330. (Letter of Brutus,
Marseilles, Nivose 6, year II.) "Since the maximum everything is
wanting at Marseilles." - Ibid. (Letter by Soligny and Gosse,
Thionville, Nivose 5, year II.) "No peasant is willing to bring
anything to market. . . They go off six leagues to get a better
price and thus the communes which they once supplied are famishing ..
According as they are paid in specie or assignats the difference often
amounts to two hundred per cent., and nearly always to one hundred per
cent." - " Un Sejour en France," pp. 188-189. - Archives Nationales,
D.. ยง I., file 2. (Letter of Representative Albert, Germinal 19,
year II.
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