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Now, to be sure five percent of the French population
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were Protestants, more about that when we get to the Dreyfus Affair.
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But the priest was often, in the^eighteenth century,
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the only person who could read in many villages,
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and his reading knowledge would be basically limited to the bible,
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repeating things that he'd been trained to say.
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But the church and the teaching Sisters, the nuns,
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really dominate, in many parts of France,
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in places that were still practicing that old-time religion,
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dominate education.
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Now, in 1833 a law comes along
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called the Guizot Law.