[Footnote 3218: "Archives Nationales F7, 3265. The following document, among many others, shows the expedients and conceptions of the popular imagination. Petition of several inhabitants of the commune of Forges (Seine Inférieure) "to the good and incorruptible Minister of the Interior" (October 16, 1792). After three good crops in succession, the famine still continues. Under the ancient régime wheat was superabundant; hogs were fed with it, and calves were fattened with bread. It is certain, therefore, that wheat is diverted by monopolists and the enemies of the new regime. The farms are too large; let them he divided. There is too much pasture-ground: sow it with wheat. Compel each farmer and land-owner to give a statement of his crop: let the quantity be published at the church service, and in case of falsehood let the man be put to death or imprisoned, and his grain he confiscated. Oblige all the cultivators of the neighborhood to sell their wheat at Forges only, etc."] [Footnote 3219: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268. Report of the commissioners sent by the department, March 11, 1792 (apropos of the insurrection of March 4).--Mortimer-Ternaux, I. 381.] [Footnote 3220: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268. Letters of several mayors, district administrators, cultivators of Velizy, Villacoublay, La celle-Saint-Cloud, Montigny, etc. November 12, 1791.--Letter of M. de Narbonne, January 13, 1792; of M. Sureau, justice of the peace in the canton of Étampes, September 17, 1791.--Letter of Bruyères-le-Châtel, January 28, 1792.] [Footnote 3221: A term applied to brigands at this epoch who demand money and objects of value, and force their delivery by exposing the soles of the feet of their victims to a fire.--32TR.] [Footnote 3222: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3203. Letter of the Directory of Cher, August 25, 1791.--F7, 3240. Letter of the Directory of Haute Marne, November 6, 1791.--F7, 3248. Minutes of the meeting of the members of the department of the Nord, March 18, 1791.--F7, 3250. Minutes of the meeting of the municipal officers of Montreuil-sur-Mer, October 16, 1791.--F7, 3265. Letter of the Directory of Seine Infereure, July 22, 1791.--D, XXIX. 4. Remonstrances of the municipalities assembled at Tostes, July 21, 1791.--Petition, of the municipal officers of the districts of Dieppe, Cany, and Caudebec, July 22, 1791.] [Footnote 3223: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268 and 3269, passim.]