Focusing on Catholic primary schooling in France from 1830 through World War I, Curtis shows how religious education played a key role in transforming France into a modern nation. She finds persuasive
Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evang
"The three extraordinary lives at the center of Civilizing Habits demonstrate how religious women in the nineteenth-century France could not only escape society's expectations, they could also play a
