Guizot was a Protestant from Nimes.

基佐是一个尼姆的新教徒
He was not what the French would call rigolo,

他并不是个rigolo[法:爱说笑的人]
he was not a very happy-go-lucky guy

他并不随和
that you want to have a couple of beers with or a couple of 7-Ups with.

不是那种一块儿喝几杯啤酒或七喜的人
And he was Protestant,

他还是个新教徒
and so what he wanted to do was to wrest education

所以他想把教育的控制权
away from the clutches of the Catholic Church, as he saw it.

从天主教教会手中夺回
So, through his inspirations they pass a law that says

于是在基佐的影响下通过了一条法律
that in every village in France,

法国的每一个村庄
in every one of France's 36,000 communes,

所有法国三万六千个市镇
you had to have a school.

都必须有一所学校
Now, the reality was that many were so poor that they couldn't.

但现实是很多村庄因贫困而资金不足