Florent Lefortier answered
Naturally, the people who were most affected by the increase of food prices during the French Revolution were the people who had the least money to begin with.
The Estates-General (or Etats-Généraux)
The Estates-General was a way of dividing the French people into three groups:
Why Did The Price of Food Go Up?
Well, it was going up anyway, thanks to all the disorganisation and havoc caused by the civil war, but prices went up even more after the Law of the Maximum was passed in 1789. This was a law that set the price of food a lot higher than it should have been.
The poor people of the third estate could no longer afford to eat, and as if that wasn’t bad enough, new laws made stealing an offense punishable by death!
The Estates-General (or Etats-Généraux)
The Estates-General was a way of dividing the French people into three groups:
- The clergy (first estate)
- The nobility (second estate)
- The rest of France (third estate)
Why Did The Price of Food Go Up?
Well, it was going up anyway, thanks to all the disorganisation and havoc caused by the civil war, but prices went up even more after the Law of the Maximum was passed in 1789. This was a law that set the price of food a lot higher than it should have been.
The poor people of the third estate could no longer afford to eat, and as if that wasn’t bad enough, new laws made stealing an offense punishable by death!
