Abrege de l'art des accouchements.

A Chalons-sur-Marne : Chez Bouchard, libraire, Imprimeur du Roi, de la ville & du college, 1773.

"Madame du Coudray was comissioned by Louis XV and then by Louis XVI to travel throughout the realm teaching the art of midwifery to reduce infant mortality and thereby arrest the perceived population decline. Her celebrity and accomplishments during this traveling mission, which lasted nearly thirty years, were extraordinary. Hundreds of official letters allow a quite thorough reconstruction of her deeds" (Gelbart).

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