Homosexuality in French History and Culture

Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781560232629
• eBook ISBN: 9781317992578
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism!

Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de Montaigne to pride parades in contemporary Paris. This groundbreaking book documents the ways homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined. During these centuries, homosexuality has been stigmatized as a sin, crime, or disease, and denounced as a threat to social order and national identity. Yet the rhetoric of condemnation has always co-existed with the reality of toleration. This groundbreaking collection analyzes the ways in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes and anxieties about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. Homosexuality in French History and Culture offers historical and literary studies based on a wide variety of sources, including:

• novels, plays, and poetry
• gossip and satires
• police reports
• medical texts
• travel literature
• newspapers and periodicals
• memoirsHomosexuality in French History and Culture combines fresh, creative re-interpretation of familiar texts with exciting new explorations of neglected historical episodes and cultures. It is a landmark of meticulous scholarship and rigorous theoretical analysis, and a vital resource for scholars of queer theory, French history and culture, and literary criticism.

Index

Adonis, 244

Affectation, 222

Aigrefeuille, marquis d’, 75, 77

Aldrich, Robert, 201–218

Alhoy, Maurice, 136–137

Anticolonialism, homosexuality and, 213–216

Apologia for the Anandrine Sect, 107–109

Appert, Benjamin, 134, 137–138, 140, 144

Arax, Gregor, 244 Arcadie, 214, 222, 223, 225, 235, 237–241, 244–245

in contrast to Juventus, 242

stance on effeminacy by, 227

Argenson, Renéd’, 53–54, 60

Argis, Henri d’, 156–157, 195–196

Aribaud, Michel, 257

Arnaud, Baculard d’, 72

Arnobat, Coste d’, 70–73

Article 331, Line 3 of the Penal Code, 236, 259

Art of Love in the Colonies, The (Jacobus), 203–206

Augiéras, Fran çois, 211–212, 217

Avril, Pierre Victor, 131–132, 141–142

Bachet, sieur de, 27

Badinter, Robert, 255, 270

Bagnes, les, 133. See also Convicts

Bagnes, Les (Alhoy), 135–137

Baldwin, James, 219

on les folles,220–221

Balls, Mardi Gras, 154

Barras, Paul viscount de, 77

Barthes, Roland, 62

Bartholin, Thomas, 27

Baschey, Yves, 241

Basile, Jean, 241

Bathhouses, 79, 158–159, 178

Baudry, André 223, 225–227, 235, 237–239, 244, 250, 253, 266

Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 90

Beauvisage, Alfred-Joseph-Emile, 176

Beauvoir, Simone de, 220

Behn, Aphra, 56–58

Bellanger, Marguerite, 154–155

Belleau, Rémi, 25–26

Belorget, Arthur, 151, 152

Bentaga, Abdallah, 212–213

Billington, James, 118

Blackmail, 192

Blanc, Olivier, 69–84

Body Beautiful, 244

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• The Journal of Homosexuality Monographic "Separates"
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editors
• Dedication
• Introduction
• "That Friendship Which Possesses the Soul": Montaigne Loves La Boétie
• Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry's "Histoire de Sapho"
• Masculinity and Satires of "Sodomites" in France, 1660-1715
• The Abominable Madame de Murat
• The "Italian Taste" in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92
• "Brutal Passion" and "Depraved Taste": The Case of Jacques-François Pascal
• "Au sein de vos pareilles": Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France
• The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris
• Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France
• Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris
• Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s
• Drames d'amour des pédérastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture
• Homosexuality in the French Colonies
• Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint-Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: A New "Precious" Society?
• The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s
• The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978
• Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other?
• Contributors
• Index