[79] Dauban, 231. (Report of Perri?re, Vent?se 24.) "Butter of which
they make a god."
[80] Ibid., 68. (Report of Vent?se 2.)
[81] Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Report of Niv?se 28.) - Dauban,
144. (Report of Niv?se 14.)
[82] Dauban, 81. (Report of Latour-Lamontagne, Vent?se 4.)
[83] Souvenirs et Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," 83. "Friday, June
15, 1794, a proclamation is made that all who have any provisions in
their houses, wheat, barley, rye, flour and even bread, must declare
them within twenty four hours under penalty of being regarded as an
enemy of the country and declared 'suspect,' put under arrest and
tried by the courts." - Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution
Fran?aise," II.. 214. A seizure is made at Passy of two pigs and
forty pounds of butter, six bushels of beans, etc., in the domicile of
citizen Lucet who had laid in supplies for sixteen persons of his own
household.
[84] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 68. Orders of the Committee of
Public Safety, Pluvi?se 23, referring to the law of Brumaire 25,
forbidding the extraction of more than fifteen pounds of bran from a
quintal of flour. Order directing the removal of bolters from
bakeries and mills; he who keeps or conceals these on his property
"shall be treated as 'suspect' and put under arrest until peace is
declared.
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