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AKIRA WATTS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT (Photo: Christian Fischer)"[D]uring the summer of 1789 a fresh cause of discontent was added to all those which have just been enumerated. This cause was the famine — the exorbitant price of bread, for lack of which bread the poorer classes were suffering in most of the towns."

- Peter Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution 1789–1793.


Via Garry Rogers