) "We have not a grain of wheat in
store, and the prisons are full of cultivators." Archives Nationales,
D., ยง 1, file No.3. (Warrants of arrest issued by Representative
Albert, Pluvi?se 19, year III., Germinal 7 and 16.) On the details of
the difficulties and annoyances attending the requisitions, cf. this
file and the five preceding or following files. (Letter of the
National agent, district of Nogent-sur-Seine, Germinal 13.) "I have
had summoned before the district court a great many cultivators and
proprietors who are in arrears in furnishing the requisitions made on
them by their respective municipalities. . . . A large majority
declared that they were unable to furnish in full even if their seed
were taken. The court ordered the confiscation of the said grain with
a fine equal to the value of the quantity demanded of those called
upon . . It is now my duty to execute the sentence. But, I must
observe to you, that if you do not reduce the fine, many of them will
be reduced to despair. Hence I await your answer so that I may act
accordingly." (Another letter from the same agent, Germinal 9.) "It is
impossible to supply the market of Villarceaux; seven communes under
requisition prevented it through the district of Sozannes which
constantly keeps an armed force there to carry grain away as soon as
thrashed.
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