HY 357 Lecture 18: Day 18
5 Oct 2016
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France and the great war: the social impact of the war, shortages and rationing. Farm wives who largely gathered the harvest in 1914. French home front is better managed than gb. After 1914, did not have to rely on that labor so directly. Meat deliveries to paris dropped dramatically in 1914. By 1918, the deliveries were back to normal. Butter and milk become difficult to come by. French government did not institute any rationing at all until 1917. French government, series of measures to ease suffering of bottom half of parisian population. After 1916, poorest inhabitants of paris, 600,000 people, 5kg potatoes per person for free. French socialist party set up soup kitchens, oct. 1914, of 1. 8 million free meals provided that month, they provided 1. 4 million. Spring 1918: french government set up in paris, control butchers that sold meat from military quarter markers and sold at below market cost to the poor.
