Starvation and Taxation

September 6th 1694

I am a starving peasant on the streets of France begging for anything to eat, I don't care if it is a root of a plant that even the animals bypass I am on the verge of death here. A series of bad harvest over the past two years has reduced the harvest by an estimated 1/3 - 2/3. Everyone is starving and dirt poor. The grain prices have risen and new taxes for war on top of what we are already forced to pay leaves our pockets in starvation as well. Louis XIV has recently granted a break for five years as he prepares for God only knows what... The French peasants need help and I believe it is in Gods hands now.