Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France : the crown, urban elites, and the poor / by Tim McHugh.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

[ix], 191 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of charity and poor relief -- Hospitals and the state -- The reform of the Paris Hotel Dieu -- The reform of poor relief in Paris -- Social welfare in a developing provincial capital: Montpellier -- Reforming social welfare in a divided town, Nîmes.