Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.  xii + 368 pp.  Photos, notes, index, bibliography.  $55.00 U.S. (hb).  ISBN 978-0-8018-8832-8.

Review Essays:
Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester.
Florence Rochefort, CNRS.
Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.

Response Essay by Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University.

Michael Sonenscher. Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution. Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2008.  x + 493 pp.  $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0691124988.

Review Essays:
Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
John Hardman, Independent Scholar.
Charles Walton, Yale University.
Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.

Response Essay by Michael Sonenscher, King’s College Cambridge.

Julian Bourg.From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. xx + 468 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-3199-4.

Review Essays:
Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University.
Michael Scott Christofferson, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Xavier Vigna, Université de Bourgogne.
Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.

Response Essay by Julian Bourg, Bucknell University.