The Following Is an Excerpt from Jacques-Louis Ménétra's Account of His

question 54

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The following is an excerpt from Jacques-Louis Ménétra's account of his childhood in Paris (Evaluating the Evidence 18.1) : "My father became a widower when I was two years old. I had been put out to nurse. My grandmother who always loved me a great deal and even idolized me, knowing that the nurse I was with had her milk gone bad, came to get me and after curing me put me back out to nurse [where] I ended up with a pretty good woman who taught me early on the profession of begging. My [grand]mother and my godfather when they came to see me . . . found me in a church begging charity. They took me home and from then until the age of eleven I lived with my good grandmother. My father wanted me back, afraid that he would have to pay my board. He put me to work in his trade even though several people tried to talk him out of it [but] he wouldn't listen to them. . . ."
How did Ménétra come to learn the profession of begging?

• A)He was put out to nurse with a woman who taught him how to beg.
• B)He was apprenticed to a beggar by his father.
• C)He ran away from home and took up the profession.
• D)He was born into a family of beggars.