field-keepers

Updated: May 13, 2025

Vaudoyer, the displaced keeper, a peasant on the Ronquerolles estate, was only fit, like most field-keepers, to stalk about, and gossip, and let himself be petted by the poor of the district, who asked nothing better than to corrupt at subaltern authority, the advanced guard, as it were, of the land-owners.

Honoré de Balzac - Sons of the Soil