Excerpt from The Peasantry: And Pierre Grassou Les Paysans, owing to the lateness of its appearance, was less pulled about than almost any other of its author's books. It, or rather the first part of it, appeared under the title Qui T erre a guerre a (who wage war for land) in the Presse for December, 1844. Nothing more appeared during the author's life; but in 185 5 the Revue de Paris reprinted the previous portion and finished the book, and the whole was published in four volumes by de Potter in the same year. About the Publisher 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.