" - At Champs, "the crop of hay is ready for mowing, but, for
want of food, the laborers cannot do the work."
[105] Ibid., AF., II., 73. (Letter from the Directory of the district
of Dieppe, Prairial 22.)
[106] Ibid. (Letter of the administrators of the district of
Louviers, Prairial 26.)
[107] Ibid. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of the Caen district,
Caen, Messidor 23. - Letter of Representative Porcher to the
Committee of Public Safety, Messidor 26. - Letter of the same,
Prairial 24. "The condition of this department seemed to me
frightful. . . . The privations of the department with respect to
subsistence cannot be over-stated to you; the evil is at its height."
[108] Archives Nationales, AF. II., 74. (Letter of the Beauvais
administrators, Prairial 15. - Letter of the Bapaume administrator,
Prairial 24. - Letter of the Vervier administrator, Messidor 7. -
Letter of the commissary sent by the district of Laon, Messidor.) -
Cf., I6id., letter from the Abbeville district, Prairial 11. "The
quintal of wheat is sold at one thousand assignats, or rather, the
farmers will not take assignats any more, grain not to be had for
anything but coin, and, as most people have none to give they are
hard-hearted enough to demand of one his clothes, and of another his
furniture, etc.
Pages:
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
910
911
912
913
914
915
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
926