The anarchy of the cities had spread to the villages. Discount Ugg boots Bands of robbers scattered themselves through the provinces. Their hatred was manifested not against the feudal rights of the nobles, but against property itself, though now no longer in the hands of a privileged class. " War to the castle, peace to the cottage," was the cry. But the flames which destroyed the one did not spare the other. The spoilers, in their haste to devastate Moncler jackets the parterres and preserves, trampled down the fields ready for the harvest. "The inevitable consequences of these disorders were soon manifested. Food, already scarce, became still more so, and the first effect of agricultural freedom was a famine."*The ten years that followed this disastrous 1789 were even more gloomy. Tyrannical laws arbitrarily fixing Ugg Boots sale the prices of food were the not-surprising result of a government which was overawed by a famishing population. During the Consulate the prospect began to brighten. Chaptal, during his brief term of office, did what he could for agriculture. But with the wars of the Empire another Moncler grave evil arose. The labouring class was decimated by repeated conscriptions. The country was drained of its revenues. Want of capital and scarcity of hands were the double difficulty against which the farmer had to strive. Absurd regulations contending with the natural laws of commerce hampered him still more, forbidding him to sell wheat at more than a certain maximum price, and interfering with the management of his live-stock ; so that it is a matter of wonder to find that the cultivation of the soil was not completely abandoned. We must not, however, put down everything to the side of loss. A large amount of gain was to be derived from the Code Napoleon, which will confer more lasting glory on the memory of its author than a hundred such victories as Marengo and Austerlitz. The codification of the laws affected the value of real property to an amazing degree. Security and cheapness in obtaining a title increase the value of property not only directly, but also indirectly by promoting an increase in the number of purchasers. Napoleon's Vibram five fingers great measure, therefore, supplemented and extended the laws of the Republic which provided for the subdivision and equal inheritance of the land. From the period of the first to the second empire agriculture has progressed,— slowly, indeed, judged by an Ugg Boots uk English standard of advance,—yet surely, as will be seen from the subjoined statistics, which I borrow from M. de Lavergne. In these figures the difference in the quantity of roots is very markworthy: this difference points to a Targe increase in livestock. Only a portion of the improvements that have been made can be shown by comparative statistics. Increased stores of manure follow increased root-crops ; besides which, much has been effected in the Vibram five fingers sale way of drainage and' irrigation with which the above figures are not debited.*Before proceeding to fuller details, it will be interesting to describe very briefly the geographical and physical conditions of France. The fact that this country extends through nearly nine degrees of latitude, and that its extreme length is 664 miles, implies a very considerable variety of climate. Still further to augment these diversities, we find rich plains, watered and sheltered, ugg classic tall boots alternating with lofty mountain-ranges of from 6000 to 13,000 feet in height. However, we.may. divide Prance with sufficient exactness into four zones. The northern embraces all that district north of a line drawn from the mouth of the Loire to the Meuse near Mezieres. This we may term the wheat-growing zone. Below this line, and extending south as far as another line nearly parallel with the first, and running from the mouth of the Gironde to the Rhine at Colmar, we include the vineyard district. Still further south, and stretching down to a diagonal drawn from Bagneres in the- Pyrenees to a few miles south of Grenoble, we pass through a Country of Which the maize is the characteristic product. Below this widest belt lies the narrowest and southernmost, comprehending the remainder of the kingdom, and noted for its olives', lemon-trees, and orange-groves.