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The poor harvest could not have come at a worse moment. France had entered into an unfavorable trade treaty with England in 1776. The pact reduced import
duties on English goods, the notion being to encourage French manufacturers to mechanize production in response to enhanced competition. A fl ood of cheap
imports from across the Channel overwhelmed the cloth industry. Cloth production alone fell by 50 percent between 1787 and 1789. The 5,672 looms in Amiens
and Abbeville in 1785 were down to 2,204 by 1789. Thirty-six thousand people were put out of work, throwing many poor workers onto city streets at a time when
hungry peasants were flocking to urban centers in search of food. The rural crisis might have been short-lived had not urban unemployment mushroomed at the
same time. In Paris, the government subsidized bread prices out of fear of the mobs, but to no avail. The situation was soon out of control. . ..
Source: Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, Basic Books, 2000
Which claim related to the economic situation in 18th-century France is most directly supported by this passage?
A surplus of grain hurt French farmers.
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Subsidized bread prices led to improved living conditions in French cities.
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Economic competition with England led to agricultural innovation in France.
Efforts to stimulate industry in France through trade agreements caused unemployment.
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