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Sons of the Soil
A Burgundy Estate Against Its Peasants
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About this book
A Napoleonic general retires to a country estate and finds the peasants of the district have quietly decided to take it from him, tree by tree and field by field. Balzac worked at it for a decade and left it unfinished; it is the least sentimental book about rural France anyone wrote. This edition carries Katharine Prescott Wormeley's translation and 58 bound plates of painting, 1750–1870, among them Courbet, Beschey, Holden and Nainsukh.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Chapter I. The Chateau
- Chapter II. A Bucolic Overlooked by Virgil
- Chapter III. The Tavern
- Chapter IV. Another Idyll
- Chapter V. Enemies Face to Face
- Chapter VI. A Tale of Thieves
- Chapter VII. Certain Lost Social Species
- Chapter VIII. The Great Revolutions of a Little Valley
- Chapter IX. Concerning the Mediocracy
- Chapter X. The Sadness of a Happy Woman
- Chapter XI. The Oaristys, Eighteenth Eclogue of Theocritus, Little Admired on the Police Calendar
- Chapter XII. Showeth How the Tavern Is the People’s Parliament
- Chapter XIII. A Type of the Country Usurer
- Chapter I. The Leading Society of Soulanges
- Chapter II. The Conspirators in the Queen’s Salon
- Chapter III. The Cafe de la Paix
- Chapter IV. The Triumvirate of Ville-Aux-Fayes
- Chapter V. Victory Without a Fight
- Chapter VI. The Forest and the Harvest
- Chapter VII. The Greyhound
- Chapter VIII. Rural Virtue
- Chapter IX The Catastrophe
- Chapter X. The Triumph of the Vanquished
- About the Author
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