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} Banalités were essentially the dues that were owed to France during the 18th century. These included the required use-for-payment of the lord's, or Seigneur's, mill to grind grain and his oven to bake bread. The Seigneur could also require a certain number of days each year of the peasant's forced labor. This practice of forced labor was called the corvée.

 


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