Saissac: the baker’s stroke of blood

On this day, the mayor of Saissac, in his capacity as a public order officer, surprised a lady in the village who was holding a fresh bread in her arms. To the questions asked, where had she obtained it and how had she paid for it, she replied, “at the baker’s, and paid three sous and ten deniers but if I had paid in assignats it would have cost me more!”

This constituting an offense, the mayor and the municipal prosecutor immediately went to the said baker to draw up a fine. Small fine as this was his first offense. But the trader did not understand it that way and the next day …

We are in 1793, on June 17, the municipal prosecutor is Sieur Cavailhes and the baker, Guilhaume Doumenc.

Twist with this new report: “We, the undersigned Commune Prosecutor, declare that on this day at seven o’clock in the evening, having met citizen Guilhaume Doumenc, baker of this town against whom the report was drawn up above, bearing a scythe in the hand told me by giving me a blow of the said scythe on the side of the back and on my left arm that I would never die of any other hand than his and that it would be the first time that he could find me alone to teach me to be his informer and to verbalize against him, adding to his speech all kinds of invective and signed this declaration to have regard to it if necessary. “

Was there a sequel? No further mention, the case may have ended there. In this year 1793, in addition to the general revolutionary context, the inhabitants of Saissac lived, according to the writings of the municipal officials, a veritable famine.

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