Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2005-4 No 52-4, 2005/4 - pagesPages 7 to 23Nuns on the Move: Ursuline Nuns in France and English Ladies in the Early 17th CenturyBy Laurence Lux-SterrittPages 24 to 49Convent Life Opens to the World in the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Visitation of Saint Mary of OrleansBy Gaël RideauPages 50 to 73The Persistence of Milan's Confraternities in the 18th CenturyBy David GarriochPages 74 to 105Strategies of Family Capitalism in Lille and Regional Financial Autonomy: The Funding of Julien Le Blan's Spinning Mills (1858 – 1914)By Jean-Luc MastinPages 106 to 130Changing the Naval Industry: Worker's Movement and Shop Floor Relations at Saint Nazaire, 1881 – 1914By Leslie A. SchusterPages 131 to 151Leather Trade vs. Bata Shoes Enterprise: Malthusian Theory, Corporate Affairs, Xenophobia, and Anti-Semitism in the Shoe Sector in France, 1930 – 1950By Florent Le BotPages 152 to 181The Seen and Unseen: Service Productivity in France and Britain during 19th-20th Centuries IndustrializationBy Jean-Pierre DormoisPages 183 to 204The Public Service Customer: Transforming the Job of Postmasters between 1965 and 1974By Odile Join-LambertPages 205 to 211Music in the French Courts of the 16th CenturyBy Florence AlazardPages 212 to 242ReviewsBy Marie-Hélène Froeschlé-Chopard