Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But many articles of luxury, too, are made in the villages, especially around Moscow, by peasants who continue to…”

But the appearance of the cotton industry in a country, or, in fact, of any textile industry, unavoidably becomes the starting-point for the growth of a series of other industries; chemical and mechanical works, metallurgy and mining feel…

To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.

Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.