only about 77,000 people now live in the Lozere

现仅有约77000人
and asked them what France was,

那个人问学生们法国是什么
and the students in the school had absolutely no idea.

学校里的学生对此完全没有概念
And this particular book marshaled all sorts of evidence about

这本书列举了各种证据支持
sort of savage beliefs, as he put it,

那时的法国是野蛮人他如此形容
that people believed it was just a superstitious,

人们认为那时的法国只是一个迷信
isolated, rural France

封闭农业化的国家
in which civilization, entre guillemets ,

而文明这个词带引号
could only come through, along with national identity,

还有国家的身份认同感只能通过
through these sort of agencies of change.

所谓现代化的动力来到法国
And this is what sociologists used to call Modernization theory,

这是社会学家们说的现代化理论
almost at its worst;

这可能是最糟糕的理论了