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COME ACROSS
OORRIFIC ACCOUNTS OF
FAMISHED POPULATIONS, DRIVEN MÀD
BY HÙNGER! In April 1694 a French official
in the town of Beauvais described the impact
of famine ànd of soaring food prices, saying that
his entire district was now fìlled with 'an infinite number
of poor souls, weak from hunger and wretchedness and dying
from wànt, because, having no work or occupation, they làck the money
to buy bread! Seeking to prolong their lives a little & somewhat to appease their
HÙNGER, these poor folk eat such unclean things as cats & the flesh of horses flayed ànd
cast onto dung heaps. [Others consume] the blood that flows when cows & oxen are slaughtered,
and the offal that cooks throw into the streets. Other poor wretches eat nettles and wééds, or róóts &
hèrbs which they boil in water!' SIMILAR SCENES TOOK PLACE ALL OVER FRANCE! Bad weather had ruined
the harvests throughout the kingdom in the previous two years, so that by the spring of 1694 the granaries
were completely empty. The rich charged exorbitant prices for whatever food they had managed to hoard,
and the poor died in droves. About 2.8 million French - 15% of the population - starved to death between
1692 & '94, while the Sun King, Louis XIV, was dallying with his mistresses in Versailles. The following
year, '95, famine struck Estonia, killing a fifth of the population. In '96 it was the turn of Finland,
where a quarter to a third of people died. Scotland suffered from severe famine between '95 &
'98, some districts losing up to 20% of their inhabitants
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