83-85. (June
and July, 1794.) - Ibid., at Nantes. - Dauban, "Paris en 1794,"
p.194, March 4.
[54] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vols. 331 and 332. (Letters
of D?sgranges, Frimaire 3 and 8 and 10.) "Many of the peasants have
eaten no bread for a fortnight. Most of them no longer work." Buchez
et Roux, XVIII., 346. (Session of the convention, Brumaire 14, Speech
by Legendre.)
[55] Moniteur, xix., 671. (Speech by Tallien, March 12, 1794.) Buchez
et Roux, XXXII., 423. (Letter of Jullien, June 15, 1794.)
[56] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 111. (Letters of Michaud,
Chateauroux, Pluvi?se 18 and 19, year II.)
[57] Dauban, "Paris en 1794," 410, 492, 498. (Letters frora the
national agent of the district of Sancoins, Thermidor 9, year II.;
from the Directory of Allier, Thermidor 9; from the national agent of
the district of Villefort, Thermidor 9.) - Gouverneur Morris, April
10, 1794, says in a letter to Washington that the famine in many
places is extremely severe. Men really die of starvation who have the
means to buy bread if they could only get it.
[58] Volney, "Voyage en Orient," II., 344. "When Constantinople lacks
food twenty provinces are starved for its supply.
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