, and of Joffroy, national agent, district of Bar-sur-Aube,
Germinal 5, year III. "The municipalities have always got themselves
exempted from the requisitions, which all fall on the farmers and
proprietors unable to satisfy them.... The allotment among the tax-
payers is made with the most revolting inequality.... Partiality
through connections of relatives and of friendship."
[43] Decrees of September 29, 1793 (articles 8 and 9); of May 4 and
20, and June 26, 1794. - Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68-72.
(Orders of the Committee of Public Safety, Prairial 26, year II.) "The
horses and wagons of coal peddlers, the drivers accustomed to taking
to Paris by law a portion of the supply of coal used in baking in the
department of Seine-et-Marne, are drafted until the 1st of Brumaire
next, for the transportation of coal to Paris. During this time they
cannot be drafted for any other service." (A good many orders in
relation to provisions and articles of prime necessity may be found in
these files, mostly in the handwriting of Robert Lindet.)
[44] Cf. "The Revolution," II., 69. - Dauban, "Paris en 1794."
(Report by Pouvoyeur, March 15, 1794.) "A report has been long
circulated that all the aged were to be slaughtered; there is not a
place where this falsehood is not uttered.
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