The Most Crowded City in the World: Montpellier

First of all, I would like to wish all my audience and everyone healthy days. I haven't been able to write any articles for KAP for a long time. Being a politician is a really tiring job and can cause you to disrupt your other duties. But I finally got the time to write this article. In this article, I will tell you about Montpellier, France, the largest city in the world, where my son currently resides there. Thanks to our homing pigeon networks, which we have established in France, Genoa and the Ottoman Empire, we can communicate with each other. Do not ask the secret of this business, I will not disclose it. :))

The population of Montpellier, which is the capital of the Comté du Languedoc province of France, is 296 according to official records. However, according to my son, there are at least 350 people actively living in the city. It's really crowded. So, is there enough food in the market of such a big and crowded city? Let's read what my son wrote.

“When I first moved from Genoa to Montpellier, I first rented a bakery shop and started working. The prices of the loaves of bread I produced were much more expensive than in Genoa and, as far as I know, in England, but I could very easily sell about 40 loaves of bread in the same day. The high demand for bags of flour had also increased the prices them and while I was baking, I had a lot of trouble finding bags of flour in the market recently. Wheat production was enough, but the millers could not produce flour for the bakers.

Worried that there would be a famine, the bazaar authority of the municipality of Montpeiller asked me to rent a mill owned by the municipality and start producing flour there. Of course, I did not refuse this request and started to produce flour by renting the municipality's mill. The bags of flour I produced were sold on the same day. Thus, we prevented the lack of bread in the bazaar.

There may also be some problems with corn from time to, but the production of other foodstuffs such as meat, fish or vegetables is at a sufficient level and there is no shortage of them."

In such a crowded city, the mayoral elections are of course the most curious issue. First of all, let's state that all mayoral elections are going to the second round. So how many people are becoming candidates for mayor? According to the letter from my son, 13 people became candidates in the last mayoralty elections. I guess it's a number we can't even imagine for England. It is possible to say that while the majority of the English people are apolitical, the French people are closely interested in politics. Likewise, we know that at least four political parties participated in the county council elections in the Comté du Languedoc.

I would like to mention something that the readers of Lewes might wonder about: The number of taverns. First of all, let us emphasise that no tax is collected from the taverns by the county. This is one of the biggest factors in a large number of taverns. According to the information given by my son, there are at least 40 taverns in the city, and we understand that on some nights at least three of them are completely full and the others are working. It is a very active and vibrant city indeed. Since it is also a port city, it is a centre frequently visited by foreign traders.

In this article, I tried to introduce Montpeiller, the most populous city in the world, as much as I could. If you want to visit this city famous for its olive oil as well, a long and dangerous journey awaits you.


David Blackwood for KAP

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