4.1 Réveillon Riots Flashcards

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Reasons for discontent

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Harvest Crisis + 1788 winter + unemployment led workers to experience food insecurity

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Bread in Paris

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A four-pound loaf of bread had cost nine sous in August 1778.
A four-pound loaf of bread now cost fourteen sous in February 1789.

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Casualties

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25-100 dead
At least 25 wounded

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Adcock

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one of the first examples of revolutionary action by the Parisian crowd - a rehearsal for the actions of 14 July

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