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Foreword - some unanswered questions, why Lournard?, the observatory; aslave society - slaves, not serfs, the pillar of the social edifice,the decline of slavery?; social structure - the persistence of ancientprinciples - a community of status - citizens and landowners, thehierarchy of the free, where the political structures the social;trade, the birth of the market and a new relationship between town andcountry - one problem and three failures, Macon and Lournand - arelationship of the ancient type, Cluny and Lournand - a relationshipof the new type; agrarian growth - the problematic - one certainty andtwo unknowns, the signs of agrarian growth, the social conditions ofgrowth; a revolution - a European phenomenon - appearance of a dualpower (first half of the 10th century), the conflict; conclusion - fromthe ancient system to the feudal system - partial problematics, thecentral problematic, conceptual repercussions. Appendix: the sevenfamilies of the "ager" of Merze.