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The contract is better understood when it is known that between 1763-1764 there was a subsistence crisis, both in Barcelona – as Pierre Vilar already highlighted – and the big cities and in the countryside. The big cities received many migrations from the countryside and tried to alleviate the hunger by importing wheat and doing charity, to avoid outbreaks of violence. 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