What are some of the negative consequences Burgundy says that France has suffered due to lack of peace?

Burgundy says that France has been in decline in a number of ways because of the absence of peace. Agriculture has been neglected. Burgundy says that France was once the garden of the world, but now it is overgrown with weeds while farming equipment rusts. French children are not being schooled because there is not enough time to educate them. As a result, the sciences, which were once such an important part of French culture, are not being passed on. Instead, children are only learning how to be soldiers meditating on bloodshed.