Tallien's methodology of subjugation at Bordeaux has been described as "fear and flour": the guillotining of Girondist leaders and exploitation of food shortages by withholding bread from the already-hungry province.Brace, Richard Munthe, "The Problem of Bread and the French Revolution at Bordeaux" on JSTOR, The American Historical Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (July 1946), pp. 649-667.
