Original publication: Bezzina, Edwin. “Charity and Confessional Difference in Seventeenth-Century France: The Maison de Charité of Loudun, 1648-1685.” Confraternitas 11 (2): 2010. 3-26. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v11i2.13104. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.