Poverty in France

The document, "Poverty in France" sounds almost familiar. In reading this I was correlating it with the United States current welfare program. We in the United States as a country make sure that those of who are poverty stricken are provided with the necessary tools to survive. These tools are formed in a way such that it reminds me of Bourdonnaye's proposed and accepted plan in eighteenth century France. M. de la Bourdonnaye knew that the people would do what ever they could to survive. He knew that if the taxes were not lowered than a lot would starve to death because they would have no money for food. He also knew that if the people who sold the seed were aware of how much power they had, because they were going to be the only ones to have the seed, they would take advantage of the people and charge an insane amount of money. This in turn would be nothing but trouble causing chaos and "riots". He proposed the plan that the beggars be weeded out with the poor who actually were willing to work in starting up a "work program". This would be good not only for the people in need of work but good it would provide much needed labor. The nature of poverty in France in the eighteenth century seemed to be concerning and generous. Mostly through out history we hear