I. The Travail of Christian Democracy, 1830–1932.- II. The Established Disorder: Emmanuel Mounier and the Founding of Esprit.- III. The Paraplegics of Virtue: Mounier as a Critic of Christian Democracy, 1932–1934.- IV. The Broken Idol: Mounier, the Christian Democrats and the Crisis Years of the Third Republic, 1934–1939.- V. Resistance and Revolution: Mounier and the Founding of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, 1940–1944.- VI. The Dilemma of Communism: Mounier and the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, 1944–1950.- VII. The Heritage of Mounier: The Christian Left and the Death of Christian Democracy in France.- Bibliographical Essay.