Sometimes Napoleon reminded Georgiana of Voldemort, a pitiful man who did not believe in love and believed only in profit and intimidation could make others submit to him. But unlike Voldemort, Napoleon was clearly such a sunny, cheerful person. She could only understand it as him having seen too much darkness and ugliness, until he had lost faith in humanity.
Rather than remain in Paris as a court confessor or serve as headmaster of a national school, Henri Grégoire preferred to take part in this trip to the countryside to promote agricultural education. He had heard of what Georgiana had done and seen the technical school students making models, and he was very willing to introduce these machines to the farmers.
Not every priest said amen to everything, spent all day reading only the Bible and theology, or was seasoned in politics and intrigue. The Jesuit priests of France were the first to introduce winnowing machines to the farmers. They did not regard the wind as a force of God, whose use by man was a sin. If that were truly the case, then every windmill would have to be torn down.
Many farmers in the Avignon region were still using foot plows—plows without wheels that had to be pulled by human strength. A few simple improvements could make the labor far easier, and Henri Grégoire was happy to lead a team in promoting the matter.
Seeing how enthusiastic he was, Georgiana had wanted to give him something else to do, but he brought up matters in the south first.
Though the south was prosperous and warmer than the north, it was in fact very backward. Across Europe, shepherds were usually solitary men, spending all day with only dogs and livestock for company. People of the plains feared them, envied