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Famines in 17th and 18th-century France

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Engaged in a long-running conflict (1688-1714) that prevented it from importing cereals, France experienced two major crises: 1692-1693 and 1709-1710. Their management was hampered by a lack of memory of past crises. These famines decimated the population: in the first one, 1.3 million more deaths (54,000 deaths/month) than normal; in the second one, 300,000 more deaths, as the famine had been limited thanks to spring barley. Measures designed to relieve the needy returned in 1740, but the mortality rate recorded at that time wiped out the demographic recovery.

Source: Notes Académiques de l Académie d agriculture de France / Academic Notes of the French Academy of Agriculture

DOI: 10.58630/pubac.not.a134441

Author: Andrée Corvol-Dessert

Language: English

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4408769623

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