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 Rรฉpublicain Populaire, 1940-1944 -- VI. The Dilemma of Communism: Mounier and the Mouvement Rรฉpublicain Populaire, 1944-1950 -- VII. The Heritage of Mounier: The Christian Left and the Death of Christian Democracy in France -- Bibliographical Essay