Abstract
The seventeenth century was a significant period in the history of French charity, especially well known for the work of Saint-Vincent de Paul and his associates. Less well known is the development of institutions and attitudes toward social welfare outside Paris,l a development influenced by the economic stresses of the period, by the tendency toward increasing political order and centralization, and by the CatholicProtestant rivalry under the Edict of Nantes. To eliminate national social patterns from the debate over differences between Catholic and Protestant charity I propose to compare the practices by followers of the two faiths in two French cities and to consider the role of their
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