We poor people have not been wanting in
courage nor patience, hoping that times would mend. We have been
reduced to selling most of our effects and to eating bread made of
bran of which a sample is herewith sent, and which distresses us very
much (nous incommode beaucoup); most of us are ill and those who are
not so are in a very feeble state." - Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris,"
Thermidor 9. "Peasants on the market square complain bitterly of
being robbed in the fields and on the road, and even of having their
sacks (of grain) plundered."
[113] Archives Nationales, D., ยง I, file 2. (Letter of the Ervy
municipality, Flor?al 17, year III.) "The indifference of the egoist
farmers in the country is at its height; they pay no respect whatever
to the laws, killing the poor by refusing to sell, or unwilling to
sell their grain at a price they can pay." - (It would be necessary to
copy the whole of this file to show the alimentary state of the
departments.)
[114] Ibid., AF., II., 74. (Letter of the district administrators of
Bapaume, Prairial 24. - Letter of the municipality of Boulogne-sur-
Mer, Prairial 24.)
[115] Ibid.,, AF., II., 73. (Letter of the municipality of Brionne,
district of Bernay, Prairial 7.
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