In Brittany, it is maintained that grain is exported and stored up abroad.

In Touraine, it is certain that this or that wholesale dealer allows it to sprout in his granaries rather than sell it.

At Troyes, a story prevails that another has poisoned his flour with alum and arsenic, commissioned to do so by the bakers .-- Conceive the effect of suspicions like these upon a suffering multitude! A wave of hatred ascends from the empty stomach to the morbid brain.

The people are everywhere in quest of their imaginary enemies, plunging forward with closed eyes no matter on whom or on what, not merely with all the weight of their mass, but with all the energy of their fury.
IV .-- Panic.
General arming.
From the earliest of these weeks they were already alarmed.

Accustomed to being led, the human herd is scared at being left to itself; it misses its leaders who it has trodden under foot; in throwing off their trammels it has deprived itself of their protection.