81. France: The Enemy Part 4, 2nd 100 Years War Part 11

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This is social history in some depth.  We look at the role of preasance among  and within social classes.  Presance is identified as a major force limiting collective action that could have allowed for more reform before the Revolution.  Status issues are always complex, and important, but in the ancien regime it goes to 11.
There is also discussion of how the Matthew Principal applies to the peasants, how "it's expensive to be poor."  So how does this work out in practice in the French countryside?

With Camie Harald goes into Remonstrances, in probably more detail than anyone has ever wanted to know.   Also differences in life expectancy between peasants and nobles are covered and the curious fact that people stopped reading Rousseau  means that in our time people are not as aware of the various miseries of the French peasant.