Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of French EmpireCivilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne Marie Javouhey who crossed boundaries, both real and imagined, to evangelize far from France's shores. In so doing, they helped France reestablish a global empire after the dislocation of the Revolution and the fall of Napoleon. They also pioneered a new missionary era in which the educational, charity, and health care