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The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted
How Louis XVI went from hunter to hunted
Royal hunts, as many cycles of pictures commissioned by monarchs prove, occupied large numbers of people and vast stretches of land, acquainting subjects with their rulers, and vice versa. When, a couple of years later, the price of bread soared so high that it cost most of a worker’s wages just to buy enough for his family to eat, it didn’t look great that Louis hunted twice a week at minimum. The president of the Assembly shall be commissioned to ask of the King the recall of those sent to the galleys or exiled, simply for violations of the hunting regulations, as well as for the release of those at present imprisoned for offenses of this kind, and the dismissal of such cases as are now pending.
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