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Food shortages before Bastille

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Food shortages before Bastille

Sauvigny, Louis-Bénigne-François · Paris · Intendant of Paris

Bread scarcity helped generate the revolutionary atmosphere in which officials such as Bertier de Sauvigny became targets of popular anger.

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