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[ Archives des Affaires étrangères, vols. 1410 and 1411. Reports of June 20 and 21, 1793, July 21, 22, 28, 29 and 31, and every day of the months of August and September, 1793. Schmidt, "Tableaux de la Revolution Française," vol. II., passim—Dauban, "Paris in 1794," (especially throughout Ventôse, year II.).—Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports for Nivôse, year II.)]
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[ Dauban, "Paris en 1794,". (Report of Ventôse 2.)]
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[ Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I., 355.]
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[ Archives des Affaires étrangères, 141 I. (Reports of August 1 and 2, 1763.) "At one o'clock in the morning, we were surprised to find men and women lying along the sides of the houses patiently waiting for the shops to open."—Dauban, 231. (Report of Ventôse 24.) To obtain the lights of a hog, at the slaughter house near the Jardin des Plantes, at the rate of three francs ten sous, instead of thirty sous as formerly, women "were lying on the ground with little baskets by their side and waiting four and five hours.">[
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[ Archives Nationales, F.7, 31167. (Reports of Nivôse 9 and 28.) "The streets of Paris are always abominable; they are certainly afraid to use those brooms." Dauban, 120. (Ventôse 9.) "The rue St. Anne is blocked up with manure. In that part of it near the Rue Louvois, heaps of this stretch along the walls for the past fortnight.">[