In this article, I investigate the long run relationship between education, industrialisation and growth. I evaluate the impact of primary schooling on the economic development of France between the 1830s and 1914. To do so, I rely on very precise data on education at the level of municipalities. I instrument educational achievements, namely enrolment rates and schooling years, by the proximity of municipalities to printing presses established before 1500. This method returns a positive impact of an early high educational achievement on growth during the nineteenth century. This indicates a positive effect of the acquisition of basic education and elementary skills on the development of French municipalities. Therefore, the accumulation of human capital within primary schools contributed positively to growth during the nineteenth century and up to World War I, the core period of modernisation and industrialisation in France.

在本文中，我研究了教育，工业化与增长之间的长期关系。我评估了1830到1914年间小学教育对法国经济发展的影响。为此，我依赖于市政当局的非常精确的教育数据。我通过市政当局接近1500年前建立的印刷机来衡量教育成就，即入学率和就学年限。这种方法对19世纪早期的高等教育成就对增长产生了积极的影响。这表明获得基础教育和基本技能对法国市政当局的发展产生了积极影响。所以，