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Gleaners

Gleaners
Millet: The Gleaners Poor French peasant women search for grains and stalks the harvesters (in the background) have missed. The open-field system seen here could still be found in parts of Europe in 1857, when this picture was painted. Millet is known for his great painting expressing social themes (Cliché de Musees Nationaux, Paris)

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Unbalanced and inadequate food in famine years made people weak and extremely susceptible to illness and epidemics. Eating material unfit for human consumption, such as bark or grass, resulted in dysentery and intestinal ailments of every kind. Influenza and small pox preyed with particular savagery on populations weakened by famine. In fine years, numbers of deaths soared far above normal. A third of a village’s population might disappear in a year or two. The 1690s were as dismal as many of the worst periods of earlier times. One county in Finland, probably typical of the entire country, lost fully 28 percent of its inhabitants in 1696 and 1697 Certain well studied villages in the Beauvais region of northern France suffered a similar fate. In preindustrial Europe, the harvest was the real king, and the king was seldom generous and often cruel. ~Page 610
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A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY
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The Gleaners
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