"It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth."

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Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

Philippe Aries

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