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Last night at 8 o'clock, M. d'Avenel delivered his second lecture on the economic questions of France, in Sanders Theatre. The next lecture will be given Monday at 4.30 o'clock in the same place...
...Avenel traced the peasant from the early conditions of serfdom, through the steps of enfranchisement, which took place on account of the scarcity of labor in the Middle Ages. The Lords gave their servants their lands, only keeping the rents and indirect rights for themselves. This made the servants definitely associated with the land, and was a great element in retaining their services. Through this means all peasants became proprietors, but they were forbidden to sell or rent their land...
...vicomte G. d'Avenel will deliver the second of the Hyde lectures on the economic history of France at 8 o'clock this evening in Sanders Theatre. His subject tonight will be "Les paysans et l'agriculture depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'a nos jours...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. II. "Les paysans et l'agriculture, depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'a nos jours." M. le vicomte Georges d'Avenel. Sanders Theatre...
...Avenel asserted that economic evolutions are independent of social changes, and have no points in common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...