Talk:Belle/@comment-9548674-20180303193951/@comment-34367497-20180912082324

She still lived there. You're usually judged by people around you, not the ones from a place you once happened to live in. And people tend to measure others using their own measure (is it how it's told in English? You know what I mean).

And the fact some priest from XVIIIth century stated Voltaire and Dierout they're plotting to destroy Christianity, doesn't mean they were. Voltaire was more of a Freethinker than an atheist, and I doubt Diderout was plotting something like that. There's difference between not being a Christian and being an enemy of them. Just a conspiracy theory. And even if they would, there's a difference between plans and reality. The education developed even among villagers, but it doesn't mean that suddenly everyone started going to school, think independently and things like that.

And literacy indeed grew then, also thanks to Church's schools, but remember that reading Bible wasn't considered by Catholics back then as important as attending a Latin mass nobody understood. I doubt that all nuns were literate. This was a different type of religiousness. You'd be suprised how unpopular reading Bible is in one of the most religious/Catholic countries is even in times when everyone can do it. When it comes to Marie Antoinette, she was a daughter of an emperor, so, well.

I'm not stating if she would or wouldn't be executed, I wanted to show that women were treated differently in these times, and there wasn't such a thing as woman's law.

I just wanted to say, villager's mentality was different than philosopher's mentality. They had got different worldviews, different lifestyles, and things you learn about culture of given epoque is mainly about elites. Peasants' situation was changing, but not very spectacullary. The idea of education for all was just born, and views of many Enlightement villagers were similar to their medieval ancestors' ones.

P.S. Sorry for eventual language mistakes. I'm not a native English speaker, and the text was pretty complicated.