Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life by Philippe Ariès

Author:Philippe Ariès [Aries, Philippe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780394702865
Published: 1965-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Although they seem more common and widespread than the cases of precocious schooling, which are not recorded in our registers, the cases of tardy or extended schooling represent only a small proportion of the total school population. Let us now examine the ages nearest to the average cases.

Let us note first of all the variations in numbers from one class to another. Generally a drop in numbers is registered after the fifth class, and another after the third, due to the departure of pupils of passage such as Bonneval or Girardon. Sometimes there is a rise in the first class (Caen, 1677), caused by the arrival of pupils from other schools without higher classes. The oscillations due to departures would be even more pronounced if they were not offset by the entry into classes all the way up the school of pupils of all ages, for admission was not restricted as it is nowadays to the bottom class.

In these circumstances, it is easy to see why there was not one predominant age in each class, but several.

In the fifth class at Chalons in 1618 there is no age group representing more than 20 per cent of the total number of pupils in the class. Five groups going from ten to fourteen are close together:

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