bourg-d'oysan

Updated: May 25, 2025

Valognes in the Cotentin, Bourg-d'Oysan down in the Dauphine in its vast theatre of upright hills, St. In England the railway brought in that beneficent class, the gentlemen; in France, that still more beneficent class, the Haute Bourgeoisie. I know what you are going to say; you are going to say that there were squires before the railways in England.

Hilaire Belloc - On Nothing and Kindred Subjects