Paris full of shops offering all kinds of of cheese, breads, pastries, meats, chocolates and more on every corner. I didn’t need to cook, thank you Paris A Little history,,,Neely’s A Concise History of the French Revolution, the average 18th-century worker spent half his daily wage on bread. But when the grain crops failed two years in a row, in 1788 and 1789, the price of bread shot up to 88 percent of his wages. Many blamed the ruling class for the resulting famine and economic upheaval. On top of that, peasants resented the gabelle, a tax on salt that was particularly unfairly applied to the poor.
