So, those who felt shortchanged and outraged when former President Umoru Yar ‘Adua removed the study of history from primary and secondary schools’ curricula and were relieved when it was brought back by the government of President Bola Tinubu must have a deep understanding of the importance of history in the development of a nation. French monarch, Louis XVIII, and his royal court wrongly thought that they could return France to the days before the storming of the Bastille and the advent of the French Revolution, and continue the dynastic, hierarchical and deep-seated inequality of the Ancient Régime that pervaded the French society from the 15th century until the bloody 1789 French Revolution. The Third Estate, the Commoners, who made up between 96 and 98 per cent of the population, could either be the wealthy landowners, the bourgeoisie, or they could be the dirt poor and economically disadvantaged peasants, the beasts of burden who paid all the taxes.
Author: Punch Newspapers
Published at: 2026-01-27 23:09:53
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