Final reduction to one-quarter of a pound,
March 31.) - Ibid., 251, for ulterior rates. - Dufort de Cheverney,
(MS. M?moires, August, 1795.) M. de Cheverney takes up his quarters
at the old Louvre with his friend Sedaine. "I had assisted them with
food all I could: they owned to me that, without this, they would have
died of starvation notwithstanding their means."
[139] Schmidt, "Tableaux de Paris." (Reports of Germinal 15 and 27,
and Messidor 28, year III., Brumaire 14 and Frimaire 23, year IV.) -
Ibid. (Germinal 15, year III.) Butter is at eight francs the pound,
eggs seven francs for four ounces. - Ibid., (Messidor 19) bread is at
sixteen francs the pound, (Messidor 28) butter at fourteen francs the
pound, (Brumaire 29) flour at 14,000 francs the bag of 325 pounds.
[140] Ibid. (Report of Germinal 12, year III.) "The eating houses and
pastry-cooks are better supplied than ever." ?"Memoires (manuscript)
of M. de Cheverney." "My sister-in-law, with more than forty thousand
livres income, registered in the 'Grand Ledger,' was reduced to
cultivating her garden, assisted by her two chambermaids. M. de
Richebourg, formerly intendant-general of the Post-Office, had to sell
at one time a clock and at another time a wardrobe to live on.
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