Martin's History of France: the Age of Louis Xiv

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Everywhere the people suffered, if they did not everywhere rebel.
May 29, 1675, the governor of Dauphiny, Lesdiguieres, wrote to Colbert that commerce had completely ceased in his province, and that the greater part of the inhabitants had Hved during the winter 1 Leitres militaires, t IV. pp, 269-280. Madame de Sevigne, letter of October 30, 1675. Madame de Sevigne' expresses herself on these sad events with a levity wliicli shows liow fjir inferior the seventeenth century was in sentiments of
...human- ity to the centuries which have succeeded it. P. Cle'ment, Histoire de Colbertf pp. 367-373.
1675. TURENNE AND MONTECUCULL 417 on nothing but bread made of acorns and roots ; that they would soon be seen eating the grass in the meadows and the bark from trees P . . . A few months after, the EngUsh philosopher Locke, travelhng in Languedoc, learned from the people of the country that the rents of lands had decreased one half since the beginning of the war. The wretched and ruinous aspect of the Poitevin cottages struck him no less, and even the chateaux of the petty nobihty presented to him an aspect of discomfort and poverty .^ This was not what Colbert had dreamed of for France !


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