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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Freedom of theHeart--Men and Women Critique Marriage 2. The Political Power ofLove--Marriage, Regeneration, and Citizenship 3. Broken Bonds--TheRevolutionary Practice of Divorce 4. "War between Brothers andSisters"--Egalitarian Inheritance and Gender Politics 5. Natural Children,Abandoned Mothers, and Emancipated Fathers--Illegitimacy and Unwed Motherhood6. What Makes a Father?--Illegitimacy and Paternity from the Year II to theCivil Code 7. Reconstituting the Social after the Terror--The Backlashagainst Family Innovations 8. The Genesis of the Civil Code ConclusionAppendix I: Communes in the Calvados Studied for Cases of Divorce AppendixII: Chronology of Revolutionary Family Laws Note on Archival SourcesAbbreviations Notes Index