Food For Thought

Here is a translation by Leslie Wilson from’ La Hotte du Chiffonnier,’ written by Louis Paulian in 1885. He records how bread was ‘recycled ‘in C19 Paris.
‘Louis Paulian, talking to Parisian chiffonniers (rag-pickers) in the early 1880s, recorded the ways they dealt with bread scraps: "If they’re clean," the chiffonniers told him, "we eat them, and if they’re too dirty, we make the bourgeois eat