Romantic Catholics

In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include, most prominently, Charles de Montalembert, Pauline Craven, Am�lie and Fr�d�ric Ozanam, L�opoldine Hugo, Maurice de Gu�rin, and Victorine Monniot.