The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 2
Landowners in Other States
Landowners in Other States.
Landowners in Other States.
Land-owners in other States.
France is said to be owned in respect of two-thirds of its total cultivated area by small farmers and peasant proprietors, and one-third of it only is owned by larger proprietors, who let their lands on farming leases to tenants. M. de Laverne, the highest authority on this subject, stated a few years ago, before the separation of Alsace and Lorraine, that the owners and occupiers of land in France might be divided into three classes, as follows:—