A decree is passed to enable the agent
for provisions at Paris to supply its commissaries with twenty
quintals of oil which, for three hundred and forty lamps, keeps one
hundred agoing up to Germinal 1. The same at Toulouse. (Report of
Destrene, Moniteur, June 24, 1798.) On November 26, 1794, Bordeaux is
unable to pay seventy two francs for thirty barrels of water to wash
the guillotine. (Granier de Cassagnac, I., 13. Extract from the
archives of Bordeaux.) Bordeaux is authorized to sell one thousand
casks of wine which had formerly been taken on requisition by the
government, the town to pay for them at the rate at which the Republic
bought them and to sell them as dear as possible in the way of regular
trade. The proceeds are to be employed in providing subsistence for
its inhabitants. (Archives Nationales, AF., II., 72, orders of
Vend?miaire 4, year IV.) As to aid furnished by the assignats granted
to towns and departments cf. the same files; 400,000 francs to
Poitiers, Pluvi?se 18, four millions to Lyons, Pluvi?se 17, three
millions a month to Nantes, after Thermidor 14, ten millions to the
department of Herault in Frimaire and Pluvi?se , etc.
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