ï¿½Trï¿½s Affectueusement, Votre Mï¿½re en Dieuï¿½ Franï¿½oise Blin - French Aristocrat, Belgian Citizen, Co-Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (1756-1838)

Name: ï¿½Trï¿½s Affectueusement, Votre Mï¿½re en Dieuï¿½ Franï¿½oise Blin - French Aristocrat, Belgian Citizen, Co-Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (1756-1838)
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780820431192

ISBN-10: 0820431192

ISBN-13: 9780820431192

Edition: 2002

Authors: JoAnn M. Recker

List price: $101.35

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Out of stock

We're sorry. This item is currently unavailable.

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Francoise Blin de Bourdon, a daughter of ancien regime French aristocracy, lived in an epoch of radical transformations. Imprisoned during the French Revolution, along with others of her family and social stratum, she would subsequently be freed to experience France's return to imperial status, the French-Dutch amalgam under the House of Orange, and the birth of the Belgian nation. Through the prism of an emerging feminist definition of motherhood as caregiving, this book examines Francoise's own mother-daughter relationships, her friendship and collaboration with Julie Billiart in founding the Sisters of Notre Dame, and their mutual ability to deal with the age-old patriarchal structures…

Book details

List price: $101.35
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 10/8/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 185
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



"Modemoiselle de Gezaincourt": The French Aristocrat, 1756-1788



"Ma bonne mere": The Spiritual Daughter, 1789-1801



"Moi, Marie-Louise-Francoise,...": Co-Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame, 1801-1815



"Tres affectueusement, votre mere en Dieu": The Mother General, 1816-1823



"Ma chere fille": The Naturalized Citizen, 1824-1830



"Tout a vous dans le Seigneur": The Belgian Citizen, 1831-1838


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index