Land reform in the Austrian Empire at 20 times its annual revenue. The peasant would pay 1/3, the government 1/3, and the landlord would lose 1/3. The reform ended the feudalism in all the Habsburg lands. However, the distribution of land were still unequal. 73% of arable land still belonged to the nobility, 8% to the bourgeoisie, and only 19% to the peasantry. Land reform in the Austrian Empire Land reforms were done in the Austrian Empire following the liberal revolutions of 1848. In 1849, the newly elected Constituent Assembly gave the peasants title to their holdings with no further obligation to the landlords (this is
Travels Through France and Italy and Italian customs. Laurence Sterne, who met Smollett in Italy, satirized Smollett's jaundiced attitude in the character of Smelfungus in "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy", which was written in part as an answer to Smollett's book. Travels Through France and Italy Travels Through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett published in 1766. After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled across France to Nice. In the autumn of the next year, he visited Genoa, Rome, Florence