Discipline.... Correction.... I Would Not Have Liked This Chair

Don't do this, don't do that.... Don't put your elbows on the table, eat cleanly Don't interrupt an adult's speech, etc.... If you want other precepts of education from the 19th century, enjoy the writings of the Comtesse de Ségur... And then there in a corner of the dining room, she was patiently waiting to do her job.... Called discipline chairs or correction chairs, Sunday meals were so long and boring that the children rarely escaped it..... At best, deprived of dessert, they had to sit on the cursed chair and thus learn good manners. This right-angled seat, equipped with a crossbar forcing the back to be kept quite straight, was its terrifying punishment in any good house. We knew how to...