![]() ![]() Now she’s trying to make us embrace a tougher topic: death. In the decade since its release, introversion has become trendy enough that it has spanned the cultural gamut, from a New York Times trend piece to a Buzzfeed List to a GEICO commercial. Arguing that our society is designed for extroverts, and that we’re losing out on all the untapped creative energy of the more socially reserved, she empowered a groundswell of introverts to embrace their true disposition. A plot drawn up at Passy in 1789 to foment rebellion against the crown, allegedly proposed several articles, the second of which was to “do everything in our power to ensure that the lack of bread is total, so that the bourgeoisie are forced to take up arms.” Shortly thereafter the Bastille was stormed.Susain Cain’s 2012 book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, ignited a revolution in the world of social science. Maslin bread is from a mix of wheat and rye, rather than the elite manchet, white bread that is achieved by sifting wholemeal flour to remove the wheatgerm and bran (and which meant one had enough wheat at one’s disposal to discard a bulk of it in the process).īut such measures were not enough, and bread (or the lack of it) was exploited as a weapon by revolutionary minds. ![]() His Finance Minister Jacques Necker claimed that, to show solidarity with those who lacked wheat, King Louis XVI was eating the lower-class maslin bread. READ MORE: Why 100 Imposters Claimed to Be Marie Antoinette’s Dead SonĪs the monarch was required to ensure the food supply of his subjects, the king was nicknamed “le premier boulanger du royaume” (First Baker of the Kingdom). “Everything conspires to render the present period in France critical the want of bread is terrible accounts arrive every moment from the provinces of riots and disturbances, and calling in the military, to preserve the peace of the markets.” Bread likely accounted for 60-80 percent of the budget of a wage-earner’s family in the ancien regime-so even a small rise in grain prices could spark tensions. The refusal on the part of most of the French to eat anything but a cereal-based diet was another major issue. A huge rise in population had occurred (there were 5-6 million more people in France in 1789 than in 1720) without a corresponding increase in native grain production. ![]() The problems became acute in the 1780s because of a range of factors. The rioters invaded Versailles before spreading into Paris and outward into the countryside. ![]() The wave of popular protest became known as the Flour War. Over 300 riots and expeditions to pillage grain were recorded in the space of a little over three weeks. In late April and May 1775, food shortages and high prices ignited an explosion of popular anger in the towns and villages of the Paris Basin. Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group/Getty Images ![]()
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