In the south, the crop proved to be moderate and even insufficient.
"To trace a picture of the condition of Languedoc," writes the intendant,[1309] "would be to give an account of calamities of every description.

The panic which prevails in all communities, and which is stronger than all laws, stops traffic, and would cause famine even in the midst of plenty.

Commodities are enormously expensive, and there is a lack of cash.

Communities are ruined by the enormous outlays to which they are exposed: The payment of the deputies to the seneschal's court, the establishment of the burgess guards, guardhouses for this militia, and the purchase of arms, uniforms, and outlays in forming communes and permanent councils.

To this must be add the cost of the printing of all kinds, and the publication of trivial deliberations.