{"id":2858,"date":"2015-09-10T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2015-09-09T03:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:33:22","slug":"the-lord-of-the-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"THE LORD OF THE MANOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The five months spent at Saint-Laurent had given him only too clear a picture of the family estate; buildings falling apart, the tower in ruins, the suites plundered and stripped of all furniture, and the lands poorly cultivated. Moreover, he had a good opportunity to learn, first-hand, how the tenant farmers, the laborers, and the peasants acted and thought, and hence, why it was impossible to restore the property to its former state. Eugene made a valiant effort to secure restitution from those working in the granary, and to prohibit free pasturage and piping of water \u201cfrom our leaky reservoirs.\u201d In fact, he even tried to collect certain feudal taxes which, in days gone by, the Legislative Assembly had submitted to bids; but the unyielding severity of his character and youth scarcely earned him any respect for his most legitimate rights. Far from impressing the peasants, his aristocratic airs only antagonized them:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cI make a brief inspection of the harvest each day, and trust that my presence will discourage any thievery. All day long, I amble about with a long cane in one hand and an umbrella in the other, and, just between the two of us, acting like the Lord of the Manor,\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>he wrote to his father, with a smugness that revealed what little grasp he had of the new order.31 He couldn\u2019t have given a worse portrayal of the ancien regime, a regime held in horror by the peasants who had gained so much from the Revolution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>LEFLON I,245<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe that this young man would change so radically and become the friend and minister to the most abandoned in future years. God\u2019s grace works miracles\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2821 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/200.png\" alt=\"200\" width=\"283\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jane Porter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five months spent at Saint-Laurent had given him only too clear a picture of the family estate; buildings falling apart, the tower in ruins, the suites plundered and stripped of all furniture, and the lands poorly cultivated. Moreover, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}