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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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The villages divide amongst themselves the fields and woods belonging to the nobles."-- It must be noted that charter-holding and feudal titles are still intact in three-fourths of France, that it is the interest of the peasant to ensure their disappearance, and that he is always armed.

To secure a new outbreak of jacqueries, it is only necessary that central control, already thrown into disorder, should be withdrawn.


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