Both father and son "after having covered
the precious sack with hay and straw in the bottom of the cart, follow
it on foot at some distance as the peasant drives along." Madame
Del?cluze kneads the bread herself and bakes it.
[120] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 74. The following shows some of
the municipal expenditures. (Deliberations of the commune of Annecy,
Thermidor 8, year II I.) "Amount received by the commune from the
government, 1,200,000 francs. Fraternal subscriptions, 400,000
francs. Forced loan, 2,400,000 francs. Amount arising from grain
granted by the government, but not paid for, 400,000 francs." (Letter
from the municipality of Lille, Fructidor 7 ) "The deficit, at the
time we took hold of the government, which, owing to the difference
between the price of grain bought and the price obtained for bread
distributed among the necessitous, had amounted to 2,270,023 francs,
so increased in Thermidor as to amount to 8,312,956 francs."
consequently, the towns ruin themselves with indebtedness to an
incredible extent. - Archives Nationales, AF., II., 72. (Letter of
the municipality of Tours, Vend?miaire 19, year IV.) Tours has not
sufficient money with which to buy oil for its street lamps and which
are no longer lit at night.
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