Louis le Nain, The meal peasants 
"The animals we see some wild, males and females spread by the campaign, black, livid and burned all the sun, attached to the earth they dig, and they stir with an obstinacy invincible; as they have an articulate voice, and when they rise to their feet, they show a human face, and indeed they are men they retire at night in dens where they live on black bread, water, and root: they save other people the trouble of sowing, tilling and gather to live, and deserves not to miss this bread they have sown. "Jean de La Bruyere Characters
(1688-1696) Here is what the historian Francis replied Bluche:
"Once upon a time - and this is not a fairy - a bourgeois gentleman Jean de la Bruyere, esquire, treasurer of France to the finance office in Caen (where he did not put the feet), an officer at the Prince de Conde (which he never left the castle to live in Paris). This La Bruyere, city to your fingertips, people left the countryside a short sketch, and early Baroque, which he did not imagine the fortune posthumously. Yet it is also a caricature that Two centuries later, Earth Emile Zola. This proves that people change little letters, and confirms a truth: even if they affect to praise the "nature", the locals know "campaign." Jean de la Bruyere was found in the 80 century and 40 of its age, the "wild animals " (I see more contempt than pity), " black, livid and everything burned sun. " These images contrasted sharply with the colors would have appeared suspicious, for, how much dirt and so tan - bunk or not - They let filter livid complexion paid to these poor people? But the description continues. Our wild animals dig the earth and stir (it's basically their job) with obstinacy (it is less here than in town loafer or idler). They live in dens (this is the name given to the cottages by a bourgeois disdain), " black bread, water and root " (remember the Treaty of Massialot cuisine, even the Duke of Orleans made meal "roots", at least for fast days).
Now we can make a synthesis, after exegesis. The text of Characters information about the Parisians and their mentality vain, as the French countryside. But, think about it, as he says of the latter? They are tough, hard-working, hard-working, sober, and, without a lot of meat (do not count the chickens, Pork, or the perquisites of poaching), are eating vegetables. All these features are correct, in honor of the peasants. Best Geek
that La Bruyere, the anonymous author of Poor farmer, if he sings and blackmailed the harshness of farming tasks, does not reduce everything to black labor in the fields: The poor farmer, / He well of malheur. / From the day of his birth / The malheureux. is already / That it rains ', it tonn' shine, / Let him shine, / The one always sees without ever, / The plowman fields !.../ The poor laborer / It is always content. / When is the cart, / It is always chantant. / There is neither king nor prince, / Ni duque nor Lord, / Who n'vive of the penalty / From poor laborer. "
Francis Bluche Lifestyles in the days of Louis XIV (1984) in The great reign
(2006) " The French peasants, given disorders of the Fronde, are not these "wild animals" that La Bruyere, city unrepentant, sees "black, livid and burned all the sun" (curious blend of colors) and he said "live in dens, to supporting only "black bread, water and roots (root is the seventeenth century, even to the court, documentation of vegetable). They have a standard of living than most of rural Europe. They benefit from the policy of Colbert, who has slowed the increase in size (compulsory tax, hard to the poor) in favor of indirect taxes (tax voluntary, which mainly affects the rich). They receive daily administration of stewards. The modern state is in place and protects them. Ironically they had presented the bill for this modernization, before they could gauge their interest. "
Bluche Francis, Louis XIV (1986), in The great reign (2006)
Louis le Nain, rural location 
