Law of June 11, 1793 -- Lands to be restored -- Difficulty of partition -- Details of decree -- Diverse opinions of peasants -- Majority of communes quickly take possession of lands -- Subsequent history of communal lands So long as the Girondins were the masters, the question of the communal lands remained as it was. The Convention did nothing to minimize the harmful effects of the decrees of August 1792, still less did it accept Mailhe's proposal concerning the lands of which the communes had been robbed. But immediately after June 2, the Convention took up the question again, and on June 11, 1793, it passed a law which has marked an epoch in the village life of France, and has been full of consequences-more, perhaps, than any other law in French legislation. By this law all the lands taken from the communes within the last two centuries, by virtue of the triage ordinance of 1669, had to be restored, as well...