And this arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows.

Just put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to men; the law sells it to them.

I do not blame the law, but I bless God.
In the department of the Isere, in the Var, in the two departments of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in pitch.

That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly country of Dauphine.

They make bread for six months at one time; they bake it with dried cow-dung.