Rebecca Rogers is Professor in the History of Education at the Université Paris Descartes. Her first book, Les demoiselles de la Légion d’honneur: Les maisons d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur au dix-neuvième siècle, was published in France in 1992.

• ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reconstructing Girls’ Education in the Postrevolutionary Period (1800–1830)1. Defining Bourgeois Femininity:Voices and Debates2. Schools, Schooling, and the Educational ExperiencePart II: Women, Schools, and the Politics of Culture (1830–1880)3. Debating Women’s Place in the Consolidating Bourgeois Order (1830–1848)4. Independent Women? Teachers and the Teaching Profession at Midcentury5. Vocations and Professions: The Case of the Teaching Nun6. Boarding Schools: Location, Ethos, and Female IdentitiesPart III: National and Political Visions of Girls’ Education7. Political Battles for Women’s Minds in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century8. Beyond the Hexagon: French Schools on Foreign SoilsConclusionAppendix 1: The Women PedagoguesAppendix 2: The Professions of Fathers and Husbands of Parisian Headmistresses(1810–1880)NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

“From the Salon to the Schoolroom makes an important and original contribution to the literature on France and French women. Rogers shows that girls’ education was not so much about girls as about women and the role presumed proper for them. It was about the family and the hopes and anxieties that French men and women placed on the family to reconstruct the nation in the post-Napoleonic era. It was also about men and men’s roles in public and private life; about nation and nationalism; and about race and the ‘civilizing mission.’”—Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland