"Corvee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been made, in writings on the old regime, to the habitant's corvee or obligation to give his seigneur so many days of free labour in each year. In France this incident of seigneurial tenure cloaked some dire abuses. Peasants were harried from their farms and forced to spend weeks on the lord's domain, while their own grain rotted in ...
— The Seigneurs of Old Canada: - A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism • William Bennett Munro |
