
Vichy France: everything you wanted to know
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Rationing and the Search for Food
Rationing was introduced very early in france, and rations decrease over the course of the occupation. Most people need something between two thousand or 22 hundred calories per day. So just having a ration card didn't mean that you would have access to these products that you needed,. The search for food comes to occupy a large portion of people's time. A cues become very much a part of life.
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