1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances 1
6. 1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls 28
7. 2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin 66
8. 3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen 103
9. 4. Pauline Craven’s Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint 149
10. 5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social 187
11. 6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman Question 236
12. Epilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity 276
13. Bibliography 299
14. Index 321