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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

7, 31167. (Reports for Niv?se, year II.)
[62] Dauban, "Paris en 1794,". (Report of Vent?se 2.)
[63] Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I., 355.
[64] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, 141 I. (Reports of August 1
and 2, 1763.) "At one o'clock in the morning, we were surprised to
find men and women lying along the sides of the houses patiently
waiting for the shops to open." - Dauban, 231. (Report of Vent?se
24.) To obtain the lights of a hog, at the slaughter house near the
Jardin des Plantes, at the rate of three francs ten sous, instead of
thirty sous as formerly, women "were lying on the ground with little
baskets by their side and waiting four and five hours."
[65] Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports of Niv?se 9 and 28.)
"The streets of Paris are always abominable; they are certainly afraid
to use those brooms." Dauban, 120. (Vent?se 9.) "The rue St. Anne is
blocked up with manure. In that part of it near the Rue Louvois,
heaps of this stretch along the walls for the past fortnight."
[66] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.1411. (Reports of August
9, 1793.) Mercier, I., 353. - Dauban, 530. (Reports of Fructidor 27,
year II.


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