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Janet R. Horne. A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The MusÖ©e Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-2792-9; $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-2782-0.

Reviewed by Robert Beck (UniversitÃƒÂ© de Tours, France)
Published on H-Mediterranean (April, 2003)

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Citation: Robert Beck. Review of Horne, Janet R., A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The MusÖ©e Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. H-Mediterranean, H-Net Reviews. April, 2003.
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