His brother, Jean de Serres, was a well-known French humanist and translated the complete works of Plato.

It also recommended métayage (sharecropping) so that cash tenants would take all the risks and thus demand lower rent, as hired labour is expensive to manage.

According to him, only large landowners should take the risk of hiring labourers and running the estate themselves.

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