This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Macknight, E. C. (2017). The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 43(3) is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2017.430302 - See more at: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/authors/own-articles#sthash.oyPkKZ0K.dpuf