What is most likely the purpose of this excerpt?

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. up through the 1700s, many europeans believed that a king’s touch could cure diseases. at his coronation in 1775, for example, king louis the sixteenth of france touched 2,400 of his ailing subjects. 1. the touch of a king truly has special healing power others do not have 2. there had been other kings of france named louis. 3. french coronations were public events. 4. the french suffered