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Cost of Bread in Relation to The French Revolution
Before The French Revolution, there were many events and reasons to why The French Revolution occurred. One of the reasons were because of bread. Due to poor harvest, bread wasn’t abundant as before when the harvest was good. However, the problem was that bread was staple for many French people and the demands were very high. However, the supplies were extremely and the price got very expensive due to the tax that was added to wheat since it was quite hard at that time for farmers to grow it. The prices literally went through the roof and once took about 97% of French people’s income to buy two loaves of bread! At this ridiculously over priced cost for French people’s main food they relied on so much, citizens of France began to protest as they complained and argued the price of bread. The protest by the people of France is called the March to Versailles or also called The Women’s March on Versailles. On the fifth of October in 1789, group of French women gathered in central marketplace in Paris and marched to Versailles. Those French women hoped to make the prices of bread go down so that they could feed their hungry husband and children. It is considered to be one of the most violent acts during The French Revolution.

The Cost of Bread
Specifically in 1789, when the harvest was bad, there was were high demands of bread, and the prices were high priced, one loaf of bread costed about 18 sous. As for French money, one livre is equal to a pound of silver. One livre is equivalent to 20 sous. Therefore, technically, a loaf of bread was traded for almost a pound of silver!

Cost of Bread in Relation to the King and Queen
Despite people of French starving and suffering from lack of their main relied food, the French king Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette feasted on food each day. The women at The Women’s March on Versailles demanded to see the queen who carelessly and cluelessly did nothing for she never cared enough. When the rebelling women demanded Louis XVI to distribute bread that the palace had.

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