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               The Peasant Question in France and Germany 
 
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                          by Frederick Engels 
 
                  Written between November 15-22, 1894 
     Published in the journal _Die Neue_Zeit_, Bd.1, No.10, 1894-95 
 
            This translation is taken from Volume 3 of the  
        three-volume English edition of the _Selected Works_ of  
     Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, issued by Progress Publishers 
 
 
                                Notes 
 
[1] By the Civil Code (the Code Napoleon), Engels implies the entire 
    system of bourgeois law as represented by the fives codes (civil, 
    civil procedure, commercial, criminal, and criminal procedure) 
    promulgated in the period 1804-10 under Napoleon Bonaparte.  These 
    codes were introduced in the western and south-western parts of 
    Germany seized by Napoleonic France and continued to operate in the 
    Rhine Province even after it was ceded to Prussia in 1815.  
 
[2] _Sozialdemokrat_ -- weekly of the Social-Democratic Party of 
    Germany, which appeared in Berlin in 1894-95.  
 
    Paul Lafargue's report "Peasant Property and Economic Progress", 
    mentioned by Engels, was published in the supplement to the newspaper 
    on October 18, 1894.  
 
[3] Engels changes the name of the medieval Holy Roman Empire of the 
    German Nation to emphasize that the unification of Germany was 
    effected under Prussian supremacy and was attended by Prussification 
    of the German lands.  
 
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