Land Clearer
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Le Défricheur | The Land Clearer
"Clearing Land near the St. Maurice River" (1860 painting by Cornelius Krieghoff, Wikimedia Commons).
A défricheur, or land clearer, was a person that cleared brush, and made fallow land cultivable. Their main objective was to clear areas of forest, woodland or scrub in order to use the soil for another purpose, such as pasture land, arable farming, human settlement or the construction of roads.
Clearing land, Finland ("Raatajat rahanalaiset eli Kaski", 1893 oil painting by Eero Järnefelt, Wikimedia Commons).
Sources:
“Défricheur”, Portail lexique du Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales, https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/d%C3%A9fricheur.