"
[109] Ibid., AF., II., 71. (Letter of the Rozoy municipality. Seine-
et-Marne, Messidor 4, year III.) A bushel of wheat in the vicinity of
Rozoy brings three hundred francs.
[110] Ibid., AF., II., 74. (Letter of the Montreuil-sur-Mer
municipality, Prairial 29.)
[111] Ibid. (Letter of the Vervins administrators, Prairial 11 Letter
of the commune of La Chapelle-sur-Somme, Prairial 24.)
[112] Ibid., AF., II., 70. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of the
district of Saint-Germain, Thermidor 10.) This file, which depicts the
situation of the communes around Paris, is specially heartrending and
terrible. Among other instances of the misery of workmen the
following petition of the men employed on the Marly water-works may be
given, Messidor 28. "The workmen and employees on the machine at
Marly beg leave to present to you the wretched state to which they are
reduced by the dearness of provisions. Their moderate wages, which at
the most have reached only five livres twelve sous, and again, for
four months past, having received but two francs sixteen sous, no
longer provide them with half a pound of bread, since it costs fifteen
and sixteen francs per pound.
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