What was life like in 18th century France?
Please let me know how much Subject credit I earn for you at school. Also, try readi Wiki, as it has some excellent summaries. When this story was written, early in the C18, France was still ruled by a king. The Revolution and the guillotine were some 60+ years away. Life was crushingly hard, and everyone was heavily taxed. There were no mcadamised roads, just dirt tracks filled with wheel ruts. James Watt was not yet born. There were no trains or cars, just horses, carts and coaches. Life expectancy was low. Public health was an unknown concept. Cities were death traps, especially in slum areas which followed no building code (not surprising, because these hadn’t been invented) and had poor or no sanitation. The last major outbreak of bubonic plague had occured in London, followed by the Great Fire, about 60 years beforehand. Life was so hard and mean that most citizens chose to spend much of their lives drunk. Alcohol was the C18 equivalent of crack cocaine. There were no McDonalds o
