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The peasant managing his property is an average owner producing enough to live for himself and his family but less rich than the peasant farmer, and possessing between five and forty hectares, possibly a pair of oxen. There are two or three in each village. He sold only the smallest part of his crop on the markets. The term changes its meaning according to the province. In the North, the household is a small landlord between the laborer and the laborer. By approaching the South the term gains in opulence. Frédéric Mistral thus describes his father as a sort of aristocrat who makes a transition between the peasant and the bourgeois. A housewife is also a sort of Picardy or Champagne dresser.