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There are many classics that feel familiar from all the references you have heard to them.

"Do I really need to read Peasants into Frenchmen?" you ask yourself. "Surely I know the main argument anyway."

Then you do read it and, like me right now, go: "OH MY GOD IT'S SO GOOD."
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"During the Revolution, the urban national guard in the Maine had the most profound contempt for the rural barbarians of their region and even carried back necklaces of ears and noses from their incursions into the rebellious countryside.”

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“When, in August 1914, the people of Champeaux and the Millevaches plateau of Corrèze heard the church bells sounded to announce the declaration of war, they were wholly perplexed since no storm appeared to be brewing.”
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