The Huguenot and the Middle Class World of the 17th Century

Within France, you have what would have been seen as the peasantry and aristocracy. And in the middle sat all of the people who did things - book binders,. lawyers and engineers. So what we would probably today call middle class, but that wouldn't have been a phrase that meant anything. There are more written records from the Huguenot's than there might have hitherto been. We know where they went. We know the sorts of jobs they were doing. Bookselling and bookbinding was becoming quite a big business at this stage. It is possible to build lives much more easily than it is in the medieval period when most people aren't literate and can't write down their