Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Rhetoric of Reform

1. The Modern Sphinx: Debating the Social Question in Nineteenth-
Century France

2. Inventing a Social Museum

Part Two. Networking for Reform

3. A Genealogy of Republican Reform

4. A Laboratory for Social Reform

Part Three. Implementing Reform

5. Voluntary Associations and the Republican Ideal

6. The Modernity of Hygiene: Interventions in the City

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

"This book is far more than the history of a single institution. It is also a thoughtful examination of political ideology and social discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an important and convincing argument about the origins and influences in Third Republic social policy before World War I." - Don Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Musee social, privately founded in 1894, emerges from Janet Horne's elegantly presented book as a remarkable meeting-place for politically and professionally diverse proponents of social reform."--TLS, 30 August 2002