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The State of Society in France
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Such was the preparation of the middle classes for government, and of the people for liberty.
If at least this close dependence of the towns on the State had preserved their finances! but such was not the case. It is sometimes argued that without centralisation the towns would ruin themselves. I know not how that may be, but I know that in the[41] eighteenth century centralisation did not prevent their ruin. The whole administrative history of that time is replete with their embarrassments.
If we turn from the towns to the villages, we meet with different powers and different forms of government, but the same dependence.[25]
I find many indications of the fact, that in the Middle Ages the inhabitants of every village formed a community distinct from the Lord of the soil. He, no doubt, employed the community, superintended it, governed it; but the village held in common certain property, which was absolutely its ow. . . Read More
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