They will
distribute proportionately eight hundred sets of wheels and harness.
The wagoners will be paid and guarded the same as military convoys,
and drafted as required. To feed the oxen, the district
administrators will take by pre-emption the necessary fields and
pasturages, etc." (Orders of Pluvi?se 10, year III.)
[136] Moniteur, XXIV., 397. - Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports
of Frimaire 16, year IV.) "Citizens in the departments wonder how it
is that Paris costs them five hundred and forty six millions per month
merely for bread when they are starving. This isolation of Paris, for
which all the benefits of the Revolution are exclusively reserved.
has the worst effect on the public mind." - Meissner, 345.
[137] Mercier, "Paris Pendant la R?volution," I., 355-357. - Schmidt,
"Pariser Zustande," I., 224. (The Seine is frozen over on November 23
and January 23, the thermometer standing at sixteen degrees
(Centigrade) below zero.) - Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports of
the Police, Pluvi?se 2, 3 and 4.)
[138] Schmidt, "Pariser Zustande," I., 228, and following pages.
(February 25, the distribution of bread is reduced to one and one-half
pounds per person; March 17, to one and onehalf pounds for workmen and
one pound for others.
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