Aftalion, Florin - In: Histoire, économie & société 7 (1988) 1, pp. 107-115
[eng] Abstract The price of bread on July 1789 was exceptionally high. The consequences of this phenomena have been often stressed but its causes remain debatable. Econometric tests of long-term models show that the price of wheat on the Pontoise market at Eastern and on June 24, 1789 are indeed...