and then of course what comes along, and this is part of these blows against the rural economy in the third republic that helps also explain why the rural population begins to depopulate, why rural france begins to depopulate--remember two-thirds of the départements have smaller populations in 1939 than they did in 1871--is along comes the phyiloxera disease here, the phyiloxera disease, which starts in the late 1870s.