"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."
— Peasant

January 1, 1970

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G. M. Trevelyan, in J. A. Mangan Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad, 1700-1914, Psychology Press, 1988, p. 259