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Prologue: Who Is Mme du Coudray? | 1 |
1. The Portrait, Paris, Summer 1985 | 3 |
2. Biography as History and Mystery, Los Angeles and | |
France, 1986-1996 | 6 |
3. The National Midwife's Mission Statement, Clermont, 1 | |
August 1760 | 15 |
1. From Private Practice to Public Service | 23 |
A Parisian Midwife | |
4. Hanging Her Shingle, Paris, 22 February 1740 | 25 |
5. A Birth, Paris, January 1744 | 31 |
6. The Petition, Paris, 17 May 1745 | 36 |
7. Apprentices and Associates, Paris, 22 January 1751 | 44 |
Teaching in Auvergne: The Depopulation Issue | |
8. Break to the Provinces, Thiers-en-Auvergne, 1 | |
October 1751 | 54 |
9. "The Stories They Told Me," Clermont, 9 May 1755 | 57 |
10. The "Machine," Paris, 13 May 1756 | 60 |
11. Early Lessons, Clermont, July 1757 | 64 |
12. A Future Hero, Chavaniac, 7 September 1757 | 71 |
13. Textbook as Patriotism, Clermont, January 1759 | 72 |
14. Protest from a Village Matron, Plauzat, 12 June | |
1759 | 79 |
2. Saving Babies for France | 89 |
15. Royal Brevet: "Sent by the King," Versailles, 19 | |
October 1759 | 91 |
16. Traveling for His Majesty, Moulins, November 1761 | 96 |
17. Boasts, Rebuffs, and Boutin, Chalon-sur-Saone, 19 | |
March 1763 | 100 |
18. Turgot, Tulle, 29 December 1763 | 103 |
19. "Her Unendurable Arrogance," Angouleme, 30 July | |
1764 | 106 |
20. The Thrifty Laverdy, Fontainebleau, 16 October | |
1764 | 108 |
21. Sounding Her Mood, Bourdeilles, 12 December 1764 | 111 |
22. Delivering "Like a Cobbler Makes Shoes," | |
Poitiers, February 1765 | 112 |
23. Surgeons of the King's Navy, Rochefort-sur-Mer, | |
30 April 1766 | 115 |
24. Brevet No. 2: The Royal Treasury, Compiegne, 18 | |
August 1767 | 119 |
25. The Bien(s) de l'Humanite, Montargis, 30 | |
September 1767 | 120 |
26. The Students--"Mes femmes," Bourges, All Saints' | |
Day 1767 | 122 |
27. "A Furious Disgust," Bourges, 9 February 1768 | 125 |
28. Prize Pupil, Issoudun, 2 August 1768 | 132 |
29. New Edition, Strong Words, Perigueux, 4 September | |
1769 | 135 |
30. The Kindness of Strangers, Agen, 30 November 1769 | 138 |
3. Forging Farther Afield--Friends, "Family," and Foes | 141 |
New Strains, Private Needs | |
31. Friendship and Fortification, Bordeaux, Spring | |
1770 | 143 |
32. The Suitor and Other Calamities, Auch, 19 | |
December 1770 | 146 |
33. Coutanceau, "Provost" and Partner, Montauban, | |
Winter 1771 | 151 |
34. "Happy as a Queen," Grenoble, 16 June 1772 | 152 |
35. Networks, Newspapers, and Name Games, Besancon, | |
16 November 1772 | 155 |
36. Flirtation in Champagne, Chalons-sur-Marne, March | |
1773 | 162 |
37. "I Cost Nothing," Verdun, 17 June 1773 | 165 |
38. She "Partakes of the Prodigious," Neufchateau, | |
Fall 1773 | 169 |
Designing a Dynasty | |
39. Romance in the Entourage, Nancy, 27 February 1774 | 172 |
40. Brevet No. 3: The Succession, Versailles, 1 March | |
1774 | 174 |
41. "A Reward So Justly Deserved," Amiens, 15 April | |
1774 | 175 |
42. Overtures Beyond the Border, Lille, 24 December | |
1774 | 180 |
43. A Wedding Across the Flemish Frontier, Ypres, 28 | |
February 1775 | 183 |
44. Ministerial Mutiny? Caen, 2 July 1775 | 187 |
45. A Newborn and a Wet Nurse, Rennes, 8 January 1776 | 190 |
46. "Attend, Monsieur, to My Little Interests," | |
Nantes, Summer and Fall 1776 | 196 |
Detractors, Defenses, Dazzling Displays | |
47. The Attack, Paris, 5 March 1777 | 201 |
48. Counterattack: "It Is the King Who Pays Me," | |
Evreux, 27 October 1777 | 207 |
49. Courting the Neckers, Paris, 31 December 1777 | 212 |
50. Pandemonium, Le Mans, 11 January 1778 | 213 |
51. The Niece's Rest Cure, Forges-les-Eaux, Spring | |
1778 | 217 |
52. Class/Mass/Vacation, Angers, 1 July 1778 | 219 |
4. Delivering the Goods | 223 |
53. Protecting du Coudray's Method, Marly, 7 May 1779 | 225 |
54. Women and Cows, Alfort near Charenton, October | |
1780 | 226 |
5. Turning over the Keys | 235 |
55. "My Age and My Infirmities," Bourges, 25 December | |
1781 | 237 |
56. Family Separation, Belley, 30 December 1782 | 243 |
57. Cunning and Calonne, Paris, 12 July 1785 | 246 |
58. Rumblings and Discontent, Sarlat, March 1787 | 251 |
6. Citoyenne Midwives and the Revolution | 257 |
59. As the Bastille Falls, Castillones, 14 July 1789 | 259 |
60. The Lafayette Connection, Paris, Fall 1790 | 260 |
61. What Treasury Will Pay? Bordeaux, 1 July 1791 | 265 |
62. Mme Coutanceau's Clinic, Bordeaux, 30 August 1793 | 268 |
63. Du Coudray, Casualty of the Terror, Bordeaux, 28 | |
Germinal An II (17 Apri 1 1794) | 271 |
Epilogue: Paris and Los Angeles, 1994-1996 | 277 |
Abbreviations | 285 |
Notes | 287 |
Bibliography | 321 |
List of Illustrations | 335 |
Acknowledgments | 336 |
Index | 337 |
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