France under Mazarin |
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Author:
| Perkins, James Breck |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-72060-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $26.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Cardinalists, as the Frondeurs called their adversaries, supplies reached Paris in tolerable abundance. The forces of the regent were not sufficient to reduce the city to a condition of actual siege, and while supplies from some quarters were cut off, from other directions they arrived with but little...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Cardinalists, as the Frondeurs called their adversaries, supplies reached Paris in tolerable abundance. The forces of the regent were not sufficient to reduce the city to a condition of actual siege, and while supplies from some quarters were cut off, from other directions they arrived with but little interruption. Wheat sold at a dollar and a quarter a bushel. The bread furnished the soldiers was required to be between white and black, composed of two thirds of wheat and one third of rye, and its price was not immoderate.1 In the early part of February the condition of Paris was said to be admirable. Bread was good; though its price was variable and at times high, there was no disturbance; the workmen were at their tasks, and every one was attending to his own affairs. There were no marks of a siege except at the churches, where every one prayed God very devoutly.' An unprecedented overflow of the Seine excited the city without doing serious harm. One could go in the Rue St. Antoine only by boat, and the waters covered the island and the Faubourg St. Germain. There had not been such an overflow since 1576.' Tranquility was not, however, so complete that the Parliament found no embarrassment in its role of a legislative and executive body. Every morning, not excepting fete days and Sundays all the chambers assembled, and, with the princes and generals, discussed public affairs. Two or three times a week they met to superintend the distribution of bread on market days. Some of the judges were charged with preventing disorder and restraining the populace, andin this they were assisted by the city magistrates and the bourgeois.1 The Bastille had been captured at once. It made, indeed, but a formal resistance. A few rounds were discharged at it from three pieces of cannon....