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Synopsis
Excerpt from La Vie Rurale dans l'Ancienne France
L'histoire politique a besoin d'etre completee par celle que le publiciste anglais Herbert Spencer appelle l'histoire naturelle de la societe. Decrire l'habitation, le vetement, l'alimentation, les habitudes, les m urs, les plaisirs, les diverses conditions du travail et du loisir; penetrer dans la vie journaliere et reelle, en n'oubliant pas l'etude du caractere, du sentiment religieux et du developpement intellectuel; etudier ces manifestations diverses chez les habitants des campagnes de France dans les trois derniers siecles, n'est-ce pas une tache qui vaut la peine d'etre tentee?
Tache ardue, dont on ne saurait se dissimuler les difficultes. La lumiere de l'histoire n'eclaire d'ordinaire que les sommets, laissant dans l'ombre les profondeurs ou le travail s'abrite. Le rayonnement de Versailles empeche de voir, a partir de Louis XIV, le reste de la France.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from La Vie Rurale dans l'Ancienne France
Ce livre a pour b t de faire conna tre la vie priv e des habitants des campagnes, dont nous avons tudi la Yie publique dans le Village sous l'ancien r gime; il peut en tre regard comme la suiteet le compl ment.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.