Volume 2 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 2 (of 6) 44/64 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secure a new outbreak of jacqueries, it is only necessary that central control, already thrown into disorder, should be withdrawn. |