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The demoralizing esculent

The demoralizing esculent When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease

In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped through the Seven Years