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French Classicism, as reviled in ¡§the return of Martin Guerre¡¨ and Moliere¡¦s The Misanthrope, showed how French Classicism stressed order, balance, and simplicity in life in addition to reason, logic and analysis in seeking that is true and ƒngood. There where two different classes of human beings in the French Classical Age. The Aristocrats, (high class) and the Peasants, (low class). In the 17th century, Peasants were usually looked down on as the lower orders. They wore that insignia because of there social status among higher class or Court of the days. Peasants, where a poor class of people made up of small farmers, tenants, sharecroppers formed the main labor force of the land. Being a peasant was not an easy life. A typical 17th Century Peasant family lived in small cottage with dirt floors and only one bath those that had even this much where considered well to do Peasants because they had jobs and could provide some of what a typical Peasant family would need to survive. Although some people of the classical age had it better than others they still had to do things like pay taxes, and who better to pay taxes to than King Louis XIV. Villagers had mu