But,basically the State was winning the battle against the nobles, and you could still be the Count of anywhere,or the Duke of anywhere, and you can't mobilize goodies to give to local people except on a very local scale.

不过,总体上这个国家还是战胜了贵族,而且你仍可以当任何地方的伯爵或公爵,你不能把任意调集物资,给当地人,除非是地方标准之下

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It's an industrial process any blacksmith would recognize except for the quality, speed and scale.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The one thing that's quite clear there is that while whatever differences remain and there are many, there is very little disposition to return to the full scale conflict of the troubles and except for a small minority on both sides and most people have seen the benefits of peace and relative, I emphasise, relative calm.

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