. . Reduce, if necessary, three
fourths of the bread allowed to non laboring citizens because
muscadins and muscadines: have resources and, besides, lead an idle
life."
[94] AF., II., III. (Letters of Ferry, Bourges, Messidor 23, to his
"brethren in the popular club," and "to the citoyennes (women) of
Indre-et-Cher.")
[95] Moniteur, XXI., 171. (Letter from Avignon, Messidor 9, and
letter of the Jacobins of Arles.
[96] Moniteur, XXI., 184. (Decree of Messidor 21.)
[97] Gouverneur Morris. (correspondence with Washington. Letters of
March 27 and April 10, 1794.) He says that there is no record of such
an early spring. Rye has headed out and clover is in flower. It is
astonishing to see apricots in April as large as pigeons' eggs. In
the south, where the dearth is most severe, he has good reason to
believe that the ground is supplying the inhabitants with food. A
frost like that of the year before in the month of May (1793) would
help the famine more than all the armies and fleets in Europe.
[98] Stalin was to test the system and prove Taine right. (SR.)
[99] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 73. (Letter by the Directory of
Calvados, Prairial 26, year III.
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