Abandoned children : foundlings and child welfare in nineteenth-century France / Rachel Ginnis Fuchs.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1984], ©1984.

xvii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Chapter 1: Social problems and social welfare until the restoration -- Chapter 2: Attitudes and public policy toward the family -- Chapter 3: Mothers and their babies -- Chapter 4: In the hospice -- Chapter 5: Spreading the wealth -- Chapter 6: Chez la Nourrice -- Chapter 7: Survivors: The older children and young adults.

Includes bibliographical referrences (p. 326-349) and index.