Famine in the eighteenth century / Jules Michelet -- Feudalism in eighteenth century France / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The people / Hippolyte Adolphe Taine -- Seigneural obligations during the reign of Louis XVI / Alphonse Aulard -- The breakdown of the Ancien Régime / Albert Mathiez -- The village, wealth and poverty of the rural classes / Frantz Funck-Brentano -- A poor state in a rich country / Pierre Gaxotte -- The peasants and agriculture / Henri Sée -- The crisis in the French economy at the end of the old regime / C.E. Labrousse -- The French Revolution and the peasants / Georges Lebvre -- The sources of social conflict in 1789 / Frédéric Braesch.
