Parisians Made Bread from Bones

Parisians Made Bread from Bones

During the 1590 siege of Paris, severe food shortages drove desperate Parisians to grind human bones into bread. As the city faced starvation, people resorted to collecting bones from cemeteries, including the Holy Innocents Cemetery, and processing them into flour to make bread.

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