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The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.
His contemporary, Amsterdam-born Cornelius Krieghoff (1815–1872), concentrated on the Québec peasantry and landscapes, as you can see here with his striking Montmorency Falls in Winter.
Left behind by the exodus to Pakistan at the 1947 partition, they make up the peasantry in the north.
Among the peasantry, rumors spread alleging an Anglo-Jewish conspiracy to remove Muslims from Palestine.
The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.