It is stated that all salt
provisions are going to be taken and the agriculturists reduced to the
horrors of a famine."
[92] Moniteur, XXII., 21. (Speech by Lindet, September 7, 1794.) "We
have long feared that the ground would not be tilled, that the meadows
would be covered with cattle while the proprietors and farmers were
kept in prison." Archives Nationales, D., ยง I, No. I. (Letter from
the district of Bar-sur-Seine, Vent?se 14, year III.) "The 'maximum'
causes the concealment of grain. The quit-claims ruined the consumers
and rendered them desperate. How many wretches, indeed, have been
arrested, - ?attacked, confiscated, fined and ruined for having gone
off fifteen or twenty leagues to get grain with which to feed their
wives and children?"
[93] AF., II., 106. (Circular by Dartigoyte, Flor?al 25.) "You must
apply this rule, that is, make the municipal officers responsible for
the non cultivation of the soil." "If any citizen allows himself a
different kind of bread, other than that which all the cultivators and
laborers in the commune use, I shall have him brought before the
courts conjointly with the municipality as being the first culprit
guilty of having tolerated it.
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