SURVIVAL OF CORVEE As regards other countries. the corvee was everywhere, sooner or later, abolished with the serfdom of which it was the principal incident (see SERFDOM). It survived longest in the Austrian em pire, being finally abolished by the revolution of 1848.
See Du Cange, Glossarium inf. et med. Lat. s.v. "Corvatae" ; A. Luchaire, Manuel des institutions francaises (Paris, , PP. La Grande Encyclopedia, s.v. with bibliography. For further works see the bibliography to the article SERFDOM.