During A Siege In 1590, Parisians Were So Desperate For Food That They Resorted To Baking Bread Made From Human Bones

Still, like Gabriel Venel said in his book Précis de matière médicale, the “invention” of bone bread was forged out of necessity– not luxury.

“The idea of reducing human bones to power could only come from a mind essentially ignorant and overcome by hunger and by despair. Bones are not floury, and when they are spent by a long stay in humid soil, they contain no nourishing element,” Venel wrote.

So, bone bread continued to be the Parisian’s last attempt at sustenance until the city suffered between forty to fifty thousand deaths due to starvation. It was at that point that King Henri finally realized his mistakes and allowed his army to give food to the Parisians.

Then, not long afterward, he actually lifted the siege completely and, ironically, converted to Catholicism anyway.

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