HIST20068 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Tabula Rasa, Avail
18 Oct 2018
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I was never able to make myself understood by the peasants i met on the road. I spoke to them in french, i spoke to them in my native patois, i even tried to speak to them in latin, but all to no avail. When at last i was tired of talking to them without their understanding a word, they in their turn spoke to me in a language of which i could make no more sense. Marguerite was pretty; and m. covin was marrying her by choice since he was richer than her. This must have brought in about enough to feed them while it was worked: the acre of vines would have paid for the property tax, the irrigation fees, and put a few sous in the husband"s pocket. 500 livres worth of property a man survives in our area; with less, he su ers; with double, he is well-o .
