" In 1796 they
cultivate and produce a great deal.
[103] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 72. (Letter of the
administrators of the district of Montpelier to the Convention,
Messidor 26, year II.) " Your decree of Niv?se 4 last, suppressed the
'maximum,' which step, provoked by justice and the 'maximum,' did not
have the effect you anticipated." The dearth ceases, but there is a
prodigious increase in prices, the farmer selling his wheat at from
four hundred and seventy to six hundred and seventy francs the
quintal.
[104] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 71. (Deliberations of the
commune of Champs, canton of Lagny, Prairial 22, year III. Letter of
the procureur-syndic of Meaux, Messidor 3. Letter of the municipality
of Rozoy, Seine et Marne, Messidor 4.) - Ibid., AF., II., 74. (Letter
of the municipality of Em?rainville, endorsed by the Directory of
Meaux, Messidor 14.) "The commune can procure only oat-bread for its
inhabitants, and, again, they have to go a long way to get this. This
food, of so poor a quality, far from strengthening the citizen
accustomed to agricultural labor, disheartens him and makes him ill,
the result being that the hay cannot be got in good time for lack
of hands.
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