So fond they are of this idle existence, that although workshops offer 6fr.

a day to men, they cannot obtain hands.

With respect to provisions, as yet the poorer classes have been better off than they ever were before.
Every one gets his 50 or 100 grammes of meat, and his share of bread.
Those persons alone who were accustomed to luxuries have suffered from their absence.

Meat of some kind is, however, to be obtained by any person who likes to pay for it about twice its normal value.

So afraid is the Government of doing anything which may irritate the population, that, contrary to all precedent, the garrison and the wounded alone are fed with salt meat.