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The Flour War: Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Régime French Society

The Flour War: Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Régime French Society

Bouton, Cynthia

Paperback

AnthropologyFrench HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0271028874
ISBN13: 9780271028873
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1994
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom. Prices skyrocketed, causing riots to break out in April, first in the market town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, then sweeping through the Paris Basin for the next three weeks. Known as the Flour War, or the guerre des farines, these riots are the subject of Cynthia Bouton's fascinating study.

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