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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

A pregnant woman was wounded and her child died in
her womb."
[69] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol.1410. (Reports of August 6
and 7, 1793.)
[70] Dauban, 144. (Reports of Vent?se 19.)
[71] Dauban, 199. (Reports of Vent?se 19.) - Dauban, "La Demagogie en
1793," p. 470. "Scarcely had the peasants arrived when harpies in
women's clothes attacked them and carried off their goods....
Yesterday, a peasant was beaten for wanting to sell his food at the
'maximum' rate." (October 19, 1793.) - Dauban, "Paris en 1794," 144,
173, 199. (Reports of Vent?se 13, 17 and 19.) - Archives des Affaires
?trang?res, vol. 1410. (Reports of June 26 and 27, 1793.) Wagons and
boats are pillaged for candles and soap.
[72] Dauban, 45. (Reports of Pluvi?se 17.) 222. (Reports of Vent?se
23.) - 160. (Reports of Vent?se 15.) - 340. (Reports of Germinal
28.) - 87. (Reports of Vent?se 5.)
[73] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 116. (Order of Paganel, Castres,
Pluvi?se 6 and 7, year II. "The steps taken to obtain returns of food
have not fulfilled the object. . . . The statements made are
either false or inexact.") Cf., for details, the correspondence of the
other representatives on mission.


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