Prices of foodstuffs are skyrocketing in India, and I am reminded of the French Revolution of 1789..
The then Controller General of Finances of France, Foulon ( Joseph Foulon de Doue ) had said during an earlier famine " If those rascals ( i.e. the people ) do not have bread, let them eat grass ".
This had made him very unpopular in France, and so after the storming of the Bastille, on 14th July, 1789, Foulon tried to hide, but was caught by a crowd, taken to the Hotel de Ville, where he was beheaded, and his head paraded on the streets of Paris stuck on a pike with his mouth stuffed with grass.
Source : Satyam Bruyat
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