Yes, for several hundred years, monks were the largest literate social group in Europe. Libraries and the invention of book printing would never have become so large without monasteries and the church.

In those times, science wasn’t per se in opposition to the church, that is a relatively modern approach.

This law is aimed at visitors’ cars, so residents of Paris are excluded from the higher tariffs and remain unaffected.

This special tariff is aimed at visitors’ cars, residents are excluded and remain unaffected, as are tradesmen and care services. So most Parisians don’t care.