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Subsistence Crisis: It is an extreme situation where the basic means livelihood are endangered. The demand for food grains was increased as population had increased France from 23 million to 28 million. Production of grains could not keep space with the demand. So the price of bread, which was the staple diet the majority, rose rapidly. Most workers were employed as labourers workshops whose owner fixed their wages. But wages did not keep pace with the rise in prices. So the gap between the poor and the rich widened. Things became worse whenever drought or hail reduced the harvest. This led to subsistence crisis something that occurred frequently in France during the old Regime.
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