In France, a peasant named Jacques led a revolt against the authorities in the 14th century.
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As for Viehmann, she was not a peasant but the wife of a tailor.
To be classified as a peasant often means being treated as a second-class citizen.
"I like the countryside, and I'm just a peasant at heart, " he says.
He started out as a peasant himself, ending his formal education at 14.
Trying to leap from a peasant society to industrial America, many Hmong ended up in poverty or on welfare.
Farmland is so scarce that a peasant with one acre is considered rich.
She was wearing what used to be called a peasant blouse, with little red bows at the wrists and neck.
On the other hand, there was Joe, who had come from a peasant life in Russia with his wife and six children.
Although a peasant can indeed sell his land share or use it as collateral, he cannot trade the actual piece of land.
Coca plantations have been sprayed to the point of arousing a peasant revolt last year and seizures of large quantities of drugs and destruction of laboratories are constantly reported.
Here, the queen would often dress in simple clothes and pretend to live as a peasant (a fact that did not endear her to the local population).
Ironically, it was once the exact opposite, with well-to-do moms not wanting to bother with breastfeeding and seeing it as something of a peasant practice.
"It was a program only for those who had money, " agreed Salvador Acosta, a peasant who for years struggled to survive by growing yucca and plantains.
Titian, who came from a peasant community high in the Dolomites close to the Austrian border where the living was always tight, was acutely conscious of his finances.
S. Naipaul, every tiny turbulence of dust betrays a peasant.
Chen Guihua, a peasant, and her parents-in-law, both in their 60s, walk more than 5 and a half miles most days--over two mountain ridges--for two buckets of drinking water.
This is a simple story of the members of a peasant family in Sicily, who cannot communicate with their emigrant son, because they are unable to read or write.
Because rather than getting a real stake in the social networking giant, it looks like purchasing the stock will at best be the equivalent of being a peasant in Farmville.
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In Turkey, where a peasant society is being catapulted into the 20th century by American investment and cold-war logic, the poor go hungry and protesters get hurled out of windows.
Many finds have the ring of folklore: One trove was uncovered in 1910 by a peasant plowing his fields, another when a Ukrainian shepherd boy stepped into a pot of gold.
On it he placed a peasant's pipe and tobacco and behind the chair a box of sprouting onions, a symbol of nature and the new life that might grow from art.
Mr Siluma thinks the elevation of a Zulu from a peasant background to the presidency of sub-Saharan Africa's most sophisticated country may help revive some of the mores and cultures that had been sadly fading.
Tuy Kin still strongly resembles the photographs of her found at Tuol Sleng, but no longer has the same brutish demeanor of a peasant cadre with the power of life or death in her hands.
Ram, a peasant in Madhya Pradesh, walks 6km (4 miles) to the bus stop, travels 14km clinging to the roof of a bus, waits two hours in the bank and then does it all again in reverse.
Told by Palin Ni Lap, a European-schooled economist from a small, unnamed South Asian country, stranded with his American wife in a peasant family's hovel during a monsoon, it seethes with the complex rage, pride and frustration of an educated third world aristo who can't find an easy place for himself at home or abroad.
From the perspective of the rulers, a few peasant uprisings are a sign of good management.
Polanski has been nominated for Oscars for directing "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Tess" (1980), an adaptation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles, " the Thomas Hardy novel about a young peasant woman whose life collapses after a wealthy older man seduces her.
For a Congolese peasant, there is no shame in living in a hut made of sticks.
With him was another man, also in a black peasant's smock and the dark gray trousers that were almost a uniform in that province, wearing rope-soled shoes and with a carbine slung over his back.
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