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In the movie "Beauty and the Beast," the character Gaston claims to eat "five dozen eggs every morning." Given the movie takes place around 1790s-early 1800s France, around the time of the Revolution, would it even be realistically possible then for Gaston to afford 60 eggs a day?

by /u/TchaikenNugget in /r/AskHistorians

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