The Archbishop of Paris incurring a debt of 400,000 livres, one rich man distributing 40,000 francs the morning after the hailstorm, and a convent of Bernardines feeding twelve hundred poor persons for six weeks[1102].

But it had been too devastating.

Neither public measures nor private charity could meet the overwhelming need.

In Normandy, where the last commercial treaty had ruined the manufacture of linen and of lace trimmings, forty thousand workmen were out of work.

In many parishes one-fourth of the population[1103] are beggars.