Author: Sarah A. Curtis

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 evan …

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 evan …

What does it mean to be French? What constitutes "Frenchness"? Is it birth, language, attachment to republicanism, adherence to cultural norms? In contemporary France, these questions reson …