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The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to con

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the French Crown closed down thousands of local hospices, maladreries, and small hospitals that had been refuges

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helpe