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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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See, for the military proceedings of the government in relation to
bread, the orders of the Committee of Public Safety, most of them by
the hand of Lindet, AF., II., 68-74.
[132] Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris," vols. II. and III .,passim.
[133] Archives Nationales, AF.,II., 68. (Orders of Vent?se 20, year
III. ; Germinal 19 and 20; Messidor 8, etc.)
[134] ibid. Orders of Niv?se 5 and 22.
[135] Ibid. Orders of Pluvi?se 19, Vent?se 5, Flor?al 4 and 24. (The
fourteen brewers which the Republic keeps agoing for itself at Dunkirk
are excepted.) - The proceedings are the same in relation to other
necessary articles, - returns demanded of nuts, rape-seed, and other
seeds or fruits producing oil, also the hoofs of cattle and sheep,
with requisitions for every other article entering into the
manufacture of oil, and orders to keep oil-mills agoing. "All
administrative bodies will see that the butchers remove the fat from
their meat before offering it for sale, that they do not themselves
make candles out of it, and that they do not sell it to soap-
factories, etc. " - (Orders of Verid?miaire 28, year III.) The
executive committee will collect eight hundred yoke of oxen and
distribute them among the dealers in hay in order to transport wood
and coal from the woods and collieries to the yards.


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