Abstract: | From the last half of the 19th-Century,the French rural society underwentmany radical changes.The rural industries declined, the natural economic structuredisintegrated,the rural communes also disintegrated,which showed the weakening ofthe attraction of the traditional rural society.A large number of people moved fromtlie country to the cities, resulting in a radical change in the distribution of popu-lation. However,it was through this disintegration, transformation and turbulentmove of population that the whole rural society completed the historical change fromtraditional rural society into a modernized one. |