Carol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation and coeditor of National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology.

Across the book we find elegant writing, exciting narrative, and a colorful (for all their earnest religiosity) cast of characters.- Joseph F. Byrnes (H-France Review) By uniting her expertise on the social and, especially, the gender history of the French middle class with a close and sympathetic understanding of post-Revolutionary Catholicism, Harrison has produced a book that allows readers not just to appreciate the interconnection between social and religious questions among early nineteenth-century Catholics but also to imagine the central figures of the period as human beings.- Robert D. Priest (Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen4. Pauline Craven's Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman QuestionEpilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity

Carol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation and coeditor of National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology.

Across the book we find elegant writing, exciting narrative, and a colorful (for all their earnest religiosity) cast of characters.- Joseph F. Byrnes (H-France Review) By uniting her expertise on the social and, especially, the gender history of the French middle class with a close and sympathetic understanding of post-Revolutionary Catholicism, Harrison has produced a book that allows readers not just to appreciate the interconnection between social and religious questions among early nineteenth-century Catholics but also to imagine the central figures of the period as human beings.- Robert D. Priest (Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen4. Pauline Craven's Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman QuestionEpilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity

Carol E. Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation and coeditor of National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology.

Across the book we find elegant writing, exciting narrative, and a colorful (for all their earnest religiosity) cast of characters.- Joseph F. Byrnes (H-France Review) By uniting her expertise on the social and, especially, the gender history of the French middle class with a close and sympathetic understanding of post-Revolutionary Catholicism, Harrison has produced a book that allows readers not just to appreciate the interconnection between social and religious questions among early nineteenth-century Catholics but also to imagine the central figures of the period as human beings.- Robert D. Priest (Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen4. Pauline Craven's Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman QuestionEpilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity