Contested paternity [electronic resource] : constructing families in modern France / Rachel G. Fuchs.

Families and the social order from the old regime to the Civil Code
Seduction and courtroom encounters in the nineteenth century
Find the fathers, save the children, 1870-1912
Courts attribute paternity, 1912-1940
Families dismantled and reconstituted, 1880-1940
Paternity and families, 1940 to the present.