"There are always great gatherings at the coal depots. They
begin at midnight. one, two o'clock in the morning. Many of the
habitu?s take advantage of the obscurity and commit all sorts of
indecencies."
[67] Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution Fran?aise," II., 155.
(Reports of Vent?se 25.) - Dauban, 188. (Reports of Vent?se 19). -
Ibid., (Reports of Vent?se 2.) Ibid., 126. (Reports of Vent?se 10.) -
Archives Nationales, F. 7, 31167. (Reports of Niv?se 28, year II.)
The women "denounce the butchers and pork sellers who pay no attention
to the maximum law, giving only the poorest meat to the poor." Ibid.,
(Reports of Niv?se 6.) "It is frightful to see what the butchers give
the people."
[68] Mercier, 363. "The women struggled with all their might against
the men and contracted the habit of swearing. The last on the row
knew how to worm themselves up to the head of it." Buchez et Roux,
XXVIII., 364. ("Journal de la Montague," July 28, 1793. "One citizen
was killed on Sunday, July 21, one of the Gravilliers (club) in trying
to hold on to a six pound loaf of bread which he had just secured for
himself and family. Another had a cut on his arm the same day in the
Rue Froid-Manteau.
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