Education of women in 19th century France was almost non-existent. It was left to convent schools, who understandably focused on religious education – with mathematics and reading rarely taught or taught minimally. Girls were not encouraged, or even allowed, to access secondary education as were boys. Girls were assumed they would marry, and the skills to be wife were stressed.
But things were to change by the end of the century, with the advent of Feminism, and the passage of various laws allowing women to be educated like men. The education was still not equal, but better than at the beginning of the century.
MORE TO COME SOON……
Patricia Keats 