Used book – The Wolves' Share, Joelle Guillais

While, at the end of the 18th century, Enlightenment France still experienced famines and epidemics, and while Armand chose to poach in the forest or hunt wolves for the bounty offered by the King to survive, others knew that the country was rich, and that it would simply be enough, as in England, to revolutionize agriculture. Agronomy was fashionable in the salons, and Simon Lausnay, a physiocrat and enlightened agronomist, wanted to believe in it, despite the weight of obscurantism and the hostility of the rural community. Beyond this unexpected portrayal of a diverse Old Regime peasantry, "La prime aux loups" (The Wolf Bounty) recounts the adventure of a man who was a pioneer of a new economic order in France. The original work of a historian and a novelist who delivers a text of great evocative power.