| Summary: | In early nineteenth-century France, only a few girls and boys could access other learnings than reading, writing and counting. Some women, writing their autobiographies, remembered that they suffered from another handicap : their brother were widely favored as siblings, since their parents considered boys’ education as a priority investment. In this paper, we will compare « school careers » of brothers and sisters as siblings. We will show that the choices parents made, the time boys or girls spent in school, the skills they learned are linked, in their memories, to gender hierarchies. However, we will also consider all the alternative ways of compensating for these inequalities.
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