Country of savages -- Mad beliefs -- King's foot -- Alone with one's fellows -- From justice, Lord. deliver us! -- Wealth of tongues -- France, one and indivisible -- Working of the land -- Give us this day -- From 'substinance' to 'habitat' -- Family -- Agencies of change -- Roads, roads, and still more roads -- Keeping up with yesterday -- Rus in urbe -- Peasants and politics -- Migration: an industry of the poor -- Migration of another sort: military service -- Civilizing in earnest: schools and schooling -- Dieu est-il Francais? -- Priests and the people -- Change and assimilation -- Way of all feasts -- Charivaris -- Markets and fairs -- Veillees -- Oral wisdom -- Fled is that music -- Le papier qui parle -- Wring out the old -- Cultures and civilization -- Appendix
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