Letter

 1 Introd |           wildly romping with the peasant children at Nohant she discovered
 2 Introd |        her representations of the peasant are not corroborated by
 3 Introd |        turns instinctively to her peasant doggedly, placidly, sticking
 4 Introd |         at his plow; turns to her peasant with a kind of intuition
 5 LXXXVI |        real Norman, who sang real peasant songs to us, in the real
 6 CIII   |        well. I love the Berrichon peasant who is not, who never is,
 7 CLXXIII|         destroyed everything.~The peasant is working and ploughing
 8 CXCIV  | incompetent bourgeois, the stupid peasant and the odious ecclesiastic!~
 9 CXCVII |       soldier always brigand, the peasant always stupid? You say that
10 CCXXXI |        are sheets of flowers. The peasant thinks that there are too