- In some towns
one or two of these natural guilds kept up during the Revolution and
still exist, as, for example, that of the butchers at Limoges.
[83] F. Leplay, "Les Ouvriers Europ?ens," V., 456, 2nd ed., (on
workmen's guilds), Charpentier, Paris.
[84] F. Leplay, "Les Quvriers Europ?ens," (2nd ed.) IV., 377, and the
monographs of four families (Bordier of Lower Brittany, Brassier of
Armagnac, Savonnier of Lower Provence, Paysan of Lavedan, ch. 7, 8
and 9). - Ibid., "L'Organization de la Famille," p.62, and the whole
volume. - M. Leplay, in his exact, methodical and profound
researches, has rendered a service of the highest order to political
science and, consequently, to history. He has minutely observed and
described the scattered fragments of the old organization of society;
his analysis and comparison of these fragments shows the thickness and
extent of the stratum almost gone, to which they belonged. My own
observations on the spot, in many provinces in France, as well as the
recollections of my youth, agree with M. Leplay's discoveries. - On
the stable, honest and prosperous families of small rural proprietors,
Cf. Ibid., p. 68, (Arthur Young's observation in B?arn), and p.
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