Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Freedom of the Heart 15
7. 2. The Political Power of Love 47
8. 3. Broken Bonds 93
9. 4. “War between Brothers and Sisters” 141
10. 5. Natural Children, Abandoned Mothers, and Emancipated Fathers 178
11. 6. What Makes a Father? 220
12. 7. Reconstituting the Social after the Terror 249
13. 8. The Genesis of the Civil Code 283
14. Conclusion 311
15. Appendix I: Communes in the Calvados Studied for Cases of Divorce 319
16. Appendix II: Chronology of Revolutionary Family Laws and Decrees 325
17. Note on Archival Sources 333
18. Abbreviations 335
19. Notes 337
20. Index 437