f in the
matter, if the women are to remain tranquil. . . Should white bread
be wanting for two market days in succession, the uprising would be
universal, and it is impossible to foresee the lengths this multitude at
bay will go to in order to escape famine, they and their children."--In
1789 white bread proves to be wanting throughout France.

*****

NOTES:

[Footnote 5301: Theron de Montauge, 102, 113. In the Toulousain ten
parishes out of fifty have schools.--In Gascony, says the ass. prov. of
Auch (p. 24), "most of the rural districts are without schoolmasters
or parsonages."--In 1778, the post between Paris and Toulouse runs only
three times a week; that of Toulouse by way of Alby, Rodez, etc., twice
a week; for Beaumont, Saint-Girons, etc., once a week. "In the country,"
says Theron de Montauge, "one may be said to live in solitude and
exile." In 1789 the Paris post reaches Besancon three times a week.
(Arthur Young, I. 257).]

[Footnote 5302: One of the Marquis de Mirabeau's expressions.]

[Footnote 5303: Archives nationales, G. 300, letter of an excise
director at Coulommiers, Aug. 13, 1781.]

[Footnote 5304: D'Argenson, VI. 425 (June 16, 1751).]

[Footnote 5305: De Montlosier, I. 102, 146.]

[Footnote 5306: Theron de Montauge, 102.]

[Footnote 5307: Monsieur Nicolas, I. 448.]

[Footnote 5308: "Tableaux de la Revolution," by Schmidt, II. 7 (report
by the agent Perriere who lived in Auvergne.)]

[Footnote 5309: Gouverneur Morris, II. 69, April 29, 1789.]

[Footnote 5310: Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," XII. 83.]

[Footnote 5311: De Vaublanc, 209.]

[Footnote 5312: Mandrin, (Louis) (Saint Etienne-de--Saint-Geoirs, Isere,
1724--Valence, 1755). French smuggler who, after 1750, was active over
an enormous territory with the support of the population; hunted down
by the army, caught, condemned to death to be broken alive on the wheel.
(SR.)]

[Footnote 5313: Arthur Young, I. 283 (Aug. 13, 1789); I. 289 (Aug. 19,
1789).]

[Footnote 5314: Archives nationales, H, 274. Letters respectively of
M. de Caraman (March 18 and April 12, 1789); M. d'Eymar de Montmegran
(April 2); M. de la Tour (March 30). "The sovereign's greatest benefit
is interpreted in the strangest manner by an ignorant populace."]

[Footnote 5315: Doniol, "Hist. Des classes rurales," 495. (Letter of
Aug. 3, 1789, to M. de Clermont-Tonnerre).]

[Footnote 5316: Archives nationales, H. 1453. (Letter of Aug. 3, 1789,
to M. de Clermont-To