ville neuf

settlement

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In history of the Low Countries: Social and economic structure
…in the French-speaking areas as villes neuves), to which colonists were attracted by offers of advantageous conditions—which were also intended to benefit the original estates. Many of these colonists were younger sons who had no share in the inheritance of their fathers’ farms. The Cistercian and Premonstratensian monks, whose rules…
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