Beyond Frontiers: History of the Daughters of Charity

Founded by Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac in the seventeenth century, the little Parisian community of the Daughters of Charity quickly became the leading congregation of active sisters. "The streets as a cloister" such was the unique rule of life of those women, neither cloistered nor married but single women vowed to the service of the poor.

After a first volume dedicated to the early modern era (New City Press, 2020), Matthieu Brejon de Lavergn