[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) CHAPTER I 37/50
They are also aware of how they would want to be dealt with by others.
(SR.)] [Footnote 4102: That is what has happened during communism where men worked as little as possible since the principle of equality made most effort rest without reward.] [Footnote 4103: The so-called "Centimes additionels" was an increase in certain taxes to be paid to the communes and departments.] [Footnote 4104: Rocquain, "L'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire" (report by Fourcroy, pp.
138, 166)": A sack of wheat worth 18 francs at Nantes costs an equal sum for its cartage to Brest.
I have seen carters plodding along, seven or eight in a line, each with six or eight strong horses dragging their vehicles and alternately helping each other, their horses hauling their carts out of ruts into which they had got stuck... In many places, I was grieved to see carts and wagons leaving the high-road and traversing, in spaces from 100 to 200 yards wide, the plowed ground, when each made his own road....
The carters sometimes make only three or four leagues from morning to night."-- Hence, a dearth of provisions at Brest.
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