The well-to-do class is brought to sustain that which exceeded the
strength of the poor daily laborers. We see the nobles and people
in good circumstances a little more attentive to the poor peasants:
they are now habituated to speaking to them with more gentleness."
M. de Caraman was wounded, as well as his Son, at Aix, and if the
Soldiery, who were stoned, at length fired on the crowd, he did not
give the order. -- Ibid, letter of M. d'Anthéman, April 17th; of M.
de Barentin, June 11th.



CHAPTER II. PARIS UP TO THE 14TH OF JULY.

I.

Mob recruits in the vicinity.- Entry of vagabonds. - The number of
paupers.

INDEED it is in the center that the convulsive shocks are strongest.
Nothing is lacking to aggravate the insurrection -- neither the
liveliest provocation to stimulate it, nor the most numerous bands
to carry it out. The environs of Paris all furnish recruits for it;
nowhere are there so many miserable wretches, so many of the
famished, and so many rebellious beings. Robberies of grain take
place everywhere -- at Orleans, at Cosne, at Rambouillet, at Jouy,
at Pont-Saint-Maxence, at Bray-sur-Seine, at Sens, at Nangis.[1]
Wheat flour is so scarce at Meudon, that every purchaser is ordered
to buy at the same time an equal quantity of barley. At Viroflay,
thirty women, with a rear-guard of men, stop on the main road
vehicles, which they suppose to be loaded with grain. At Montlhéry