Acknowledgements Three Worlds, Three Portraits: Introduction -Studying the moral management of the Daughters of Charity: methods and sources -Study in scholarly context Chapter I: At the cradle: gender and power in seventeenth-century Parisian society 1. The elitist facelift of Paris 2. The dévotes and the spiritual facelift of Paris 3. Social problems and the reorganization of nursing Chapter II: Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management 1. The credible head: Louise de Marillac and the elite networks of the Company 2. The living saint: managing spiritual authority 3. The passive penitent: portraying orthodox power relations Chapter III: Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management 1. Martha and Mary: conflict and reconciliation 2.

Cloistered outside the cloister: managing spiritual position 3. Moderate Magdalene: devotional practices and social status 4. Superior saint of Jerome - justifying the mixed vocation Chapter IV: Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the ignorant substitute of Christ 1. Ignorant soul to be saved: motivation through prejudice 2. Jesus nursed: motivation through love 3. Creating the ideal underprivileged to protect the Company: substance of the moral management From conservative moral management to survival: conclusions Sources Note on vocabulary Index.