. . I have bought only
four pounds the last two days, at 45 francs 180
Total 5,022 francs.
"When I think of this royal outlay, as you call it, which makes me
spend from18,000 to 20,000 francs for nothing, I wish the devil had
the system... . 10,000 francs which I have scattered about the past
fortnight, alarm and trouble me so much that I do not know how to
calculate my income in this way. In three days the difference (in the
value of assignats) has sent wood up from 4,200 to 6,500 francs, and
extras in proportion so that, as I wrote you, a load piled up and put
away costs me 7,100 francs. Every week now, the pot-au-feu and other
meats for ragouts, without any butter, eggs and other details, cost
from seven to eight hundred francs. Washing also goes up so fast that
eight thousand francs do not suffice. All this puts me out of humor,
while in all this expenditure I declare on my honor (je jure par la
saine v?rit? de mon c?ur) that for two years I have indulged no fancy
of my own or spent anything except on household expenses.
Nevertheless, I have urgent need of some things for which I should
require piles of assignats.
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