Pierre de Vaissiere has
shown how this race of rural proprietors lived in the closest contact
with French agriculture, counseling and defending the peasant, clearing
and cultivating their land, and maintaining their families by its
produce. In his _Memoires_, the famous Retif de la Bretonne paints in
the most picturesque manner the patriarchal and authoritative manners of
his grandfather who, by virtue of his own unquestioned authority
prevented his descendant from leaving his native village and
establishing in Paris. Paris was already exercising its fascination and
uprooting the youth of the time. The Court of Versailles had already
weakened the social authority of families still attached to their lands.
[Transcriber's Note:
The following typographical errors in the original were corrected:
batallion (to battalion)
Fleugzeg (to Flugzeug)
eclaties (to eclatiez)
Kamfflieger (to Kampfflieger)]
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