Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Foreword viii
5. Preface x
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age: A Paradoxical Vision of Blindness and the Blind
8. Chapter 1. The Middle Ages 11
9. Chapter 2. The Beginning of Modern Times 24
10. Chapter 3. Groundwork for a History of Blindness in the Classical Age 36
11. Part II. The Eighteenth Century: A Different Look at the Blind
12. Chapter 4. Sensationalism and Sensorial Impairments 57
13. Chapter 5. Philanthropy and the Education of the Sensorially Impaired 80
14. Chapter 6. The Move of the Quinze-Vingts and the Annuity from the Public Treasury 110
15. Part III. The French Revolution and the Blind: An Affair of State
16. Chapter 7. The Establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791–1794) 121
17. Chapter 8. The National Institute for Blind Workers 136
18. Chapter 9. The Merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts 158
19. Part IV. Blindness in France in the Early Nineteenth Century: Realities and Fictions
20. Chapter 10. The Blind in France at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century 173
21. Chapter 11. Social Representations and Literary Figures of Blindness in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century 189
22. Part V. Blindness in the Century of Louis Braille: From Productivist Utopia to Cultural Integration
23. Chapter 12. The Quinze-Vingts Under the Consulate and the Empire: Implementing a Productivist Utopia 219
24. Chapter 13. The Quinze-Vingts Under the Restoration: A “Memory Site” of the Ultra-Royalist Reaction 253
25. Chapter 14. The Royal Institute for Blind Youth Under the Restoration 261
26. Conclusion 293
27. Notes 301
28. Bibliography 392