Mlle de Lamourous Table of Contents

Dedication Editors’ Preface Author’s Preface

CHAPTER
1	Encountering Les Filles of Bordeaux (1800)
2	Living on a Country Estate (1754-1767)
3	Growing Up in a Port City (1767-1789)
4	Leaping into the Maelstrom (1789-1794)
5	Ministering to a Priestless People (1794-1800)
6	Tasting the Bittersweet Beginnings (1800-1803)
7	Turning a House into a Home (1803-1806)
8	Finding Help in High Places (1806-1808)
9	Attracting to a Christian Community (1801-1809)
10	Riding the Bureaucratic Roller Coaster (1808-1813)
11	Enduring the Pangs of Homesickness (1813)
12	Seeking Justice in the City of Light (1813)
13	Forming a Religious Institute (1813-1815)
14	Helping To Establish Other Foundations (1816-1817)
15	Sharing Community Life with Her Filles
16	Sharing Responsibility for Her Filles
17	Building up the Church
18	Extending a Successful Enterprise (1818-1820)
19	Consolidating a Second Miséricorde (1820-1821)
20	Facing the Inevitable (1821-1836)
21	Sowing the Seeds of Fioretti
22	Planting more Fioretti
23	Extending Her Mercy and Love Beyond Death

APPENDICES
Appendix One	Background: History of Prostitution
Appendix Two	De Lamourous: Ancestry
Appendix Three	De Lamourous: Marriage Certificate
Appendix Four	Marie Thérèse: Baptismal Certificate
Appendix Five	Marie Thérèse: Act of Oblation
Appendix Six	Eulogy by Barrès
Appendix Seven	Religious and Secular Names
Appendix Eight	Population of the Miséricorde of Bordeaux Miséricorde Registres des Pénitentes Population of the Miséricorde of Laval
Appendix Nine	Social Strata Represented among the Filles
Appendix Ten	Personal Histories of the Filles
Appendix Eleven	Chronology of the Institute

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Index