) The farmers do not bring in their
wheat because they sell it elsewhere at the rate of fifteen hundred
and two thousand francs the sack of three hundred and thirty pounds.
[116] Ibid., AF., II., 71. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of the
district of Meaux, Messidor 2.) "Their fate is shared by many of the
rural communes" and the whole district has been reduced to this dearth
"to increase the resources of Paris and the armies."
[117] Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports of the Police, Pluvi?se
6, year III.) - Ibid., Germinal 16. "A letter from the department of
Drome states that they are dying of hunger there, bread selling at
three francs the pound."
[118] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 70. (Deliberations of the
council-general of Franciade, Thermidor 9, year III.)
[119] Ibid. (Letter of the procureur-syndic of the district of Saint-
Germain, Thermidor 10.) - Del?cluze, "Souvenirs de Soixante Ann?es,"
p. 10. (The Del?cluze family live in Mendon in 1794 and for most of
1795. M. Del?cluze, senior, and his son go to Meaux and obtain of a
farmer a bag of good flour weighing three hundred and twenty five
pounds for about ten louis d'or and fetch it home, taking the greatest
pains to keep it concealed.
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