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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER II
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Prices are, however, already rising.

We have a bread and a meat maximum, but to force a butcher to sell you a cutlet at the tariff price, one has to go with a corporal's guard, which cannot always be procured.

The _Gazette Officielle_ contains a decree regulating the sale of horse-flesh.

I presume if the siege lasts long enough, dogs, rats, and cats will be tariffed.

I have got 1000 francs with me.


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