corvee

The evils of the road corvée, meanwhile remained patent and indisputable.

The milice supplied as bad troops as the corvée supplied bad roads.

The corvée, vexatious as it was, yet excited less violent heats and inflicted less misery than the abuses of military service.

Their architects could count upon the labour not only of the fellahs of the corvée, but also upon thousands of foreign prisoners.

On one of the little islands, let to a middleman, all the evil features of the corvée are brought into prominence.