Reglementarea preţului pâinii în Bucureşti (sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea – începutul secolului al XX-lea)

Our research aims to analyse how the Bucharest municipality regulated the price of bread between 1864 and 1912. In the first part of the article, we explain why bread had a special status, different from most other foods, which resulted in special interest from the authorities. We also present the administrative tools available to the City Hall, as well as the existing technological constraints. In the second part of the text, we analyse chronologically the various measures taken by successive City Hall administrations, highlighting the hesitations and reversals, the authorities’ efforts to ensure cheap bread, but also the limits of the enacted measures. Finally, we discuss some general aspects related to the political concepts and administrative practices of the municipality.