"Villenage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... maimed and useless to their hovels. "Legatos cepit," says William of Jumieges, "truncatisque manibus et pedibus inutiles suis remisit," adding with unconscious ferocity "his rustici expertis ad sua aratra sunt reversi." But the germs of freedom did not die, for villenage in Normandy was lighter, and ceased far sooner, than in the rest of France. These first martyrs did not ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook |
