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Corsica is an island located west of [[Italy]] and southeast of [[France]]. Corsica belonged to the Republic of [[Genoa]] (before Genoa became part of Italy) and in [[1768]] was ceded to France as a pay off of a debt. The island relied largely on it's agricultural economy for survival.

Certain changes occuredoccurred in [[Europe]] during the end of the 18th

century and begining of the 19th century that would greatly affect the lives of the French and the people of Corsica. One of those changes came about with the advent of the [[Second Industrial Revolution]]. With the Second Industrial Revolution, many of the people who worked in agriculture began to move to the larger cities with hopes of finding better jobs and better lives. Also, there was a wide spread crop failure due to long periods of drought and crop diseases (e.g., the phyiloxera epidemic destroyed the Corsican wine industry), cholera epidemio and a general deterioration of economic conditions. Thus, many of the farms in Corsica began to fail.