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The Politicisation of countryside was an integral part of the fundamental transformation of society, which we usually refer to as modernization. The works on modern French history have contributed significantly to the knowledge of the regularity of the politicisation of the rural areas. The presented historiographic balance sheet represents the most significant of them and their authors, such as André Siegfried, Maurice Agulhon or Eugen Weber. It deals with the selection of topics, methods and theses and puts them in the context of the paradigmatic transformations of historiography in the 20th century as well as research on modern French history.