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Abandoned Children

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Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel G. Fuchs

Rachel G. Fuchs is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History. She received her PhD in 1980 from Indiana University.  Her six books on French and European history include, Abandoned Children in Nineteenth-Century France (1984), Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (1992), Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870 – 1914 (1995), Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2005) and Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2004) (with Victoria Thompson).

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