French landed tenure

Having been making good progress on Chapter the-second-and-last of "Chick nor Child" (although finding it rather harder than I had anticipated to include the snatch of dialogue which was supposed to provide the title!), I decided belatedly that I really ought to do some research to corroborate the social structure I had set up, given that I was now supposed to be writing from the peasant farmer point of view (and likely to run into indignant egalitarian Americans, as I discovered when presenting the prevailing employers' view of servants: unreliable, complaining and opinionated, rather than downtrodden slaves!)
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( Divided inheritance and Raoul's marriage )