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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood Rod Purcell presidents and Supreme Court justicesThis far reaching study of maternal societies in post Revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children. In Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, Christine