" - Mauchin, on
the strength of it, is incarcerated at Troyes "at his own expense."
[100] Ibid. Letter from the district of Bar sur Seine, Vent?se 14,
year III. Since the abolition of the "maximum," "the inhabitants
travel thirty and forty leagues to purchase wheat." (Letter from the
municipality of Troyes, Vent?se 15.) "According to the price of grain,
which we keep on buying, by agreement, bread will cost fifteen sous
(the pound) next decade."
[101] Schmidt, "Pariser Zust?nde," 145-220. The re-opening of the
Bourse, April 25, 1795; ibid., 322, II., 105. - " Memoirs of Theobald
Wolf," vol. I., p.200, (February 3, 1796). At Havre, the louis d'or
is then worth five thousand francs, and the ecu of six francs in
proportion. At Paris (February 12), the louis d'or is worth six
thousand five hundred; a dinner for two persons at the Palais Royal
costs one thousand five hundred francs. - Mayer, ("Frankreich in
1796.") He gives a dinner for ten persons which costs three hundred
thousand francs in assignats. At this rate a cab ride costs one
thousand francs, and by the hour six thousand francs.
[102] "Correspondance de Mallet du Pan avec la cour de Vienne," I.
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