Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Revolutionary Ancestors of the Gamin de Paris; 2 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century French Social History; 3 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in the French Social Imaginary; 4 The Gamin de Paris and the Revolution of 1830; 5 The Gamin de Paris in Panoramic Literature and in the Revolutions of 1848; 6 The Gamin de Paris, the Second Empire, and the Commune; 7 The Gamin de Paris During the Early Third Republic; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index