Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century FranceThis book examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France showed a growing interest in natalist, neo Lamarckian, social hygiene, racist, and other biologically based movements as a response to the perception that French society was in a