What was the main difficulty faced by common people during a subsistence crisis in eighteenth-century France?

A shortage of food and essential goods

A subsistence crisis occurs when ordinary people cannot obtain enough basic food for survival. In late-eighteenth-century France, poor harvests could reduce the supply of grain, while population growth and rising demand pushed bread and other necessities to higher prices. Since common people spent a large share of their income on bread, scarcity and price increases caused hunger, hardship and anger. Therefore option A, a shortage of food and necessities, is correct. An excess of palaces was not the direct subsistence problem, taxes did not end, and privileges were not distributed equally under the Old Regime. Those alternatives contradict the social and economic conditions that helped create revolutionary unrest.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: The French Revolution. Topic: French Society During the Late Eighteenth Century.