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Jones, P.M. 1988: The Peasantry in the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mendras, H. 1970: The vanishing peasant: innovation and change in French agriculture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Weber, E. 1976: Peasants into Frenchmen: the modernization of rural France 1870-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press.