Levels of Literacy in France during seventeenth-century French absolutism under Louis XIV and during the reign of Louis XVI immediately before the French Revolution of 1789

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Levels of Literacy in France during seventeenth-century French absolutism under Louis XIV and during the reign of Louis XVI immediately before the French Revolution of 1789 During the reign of Louis XIV, the French society was divided into three estates. Ninety-Seven percent of the population of France did not have many rights. They were excluded from any type of decision-making in governmental issues. The increase in the levels of literacy let the French citizens express their interests, literacy would allow the French to become more intelligent. From 1689 to 1789 France was the most powerful nation in Europe at the time. France was admired throughout Europe. They were admired and known for having one of the strongest and most powerful armies in all of Europe. There then was a division in France’s society. They were
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divided into three estates, the clergy, the nobles, and the rest of the citizens which was a population of ninety-seven percent that was called the Third Estate. Most of the population were not allowed to participate in the decision-making process.        The divisions in French society at the time had some obvious reasons, an example of one is the different social classes were either illiterate or literate. Divisions existed during king Louis reign, in men and women, the northern and southern regions of France. In the seventh-century France, there was between twenty and and forty percent of the male population were ...

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