| Description |
1 online resource (378 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Officials -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Index |
| Summary |
We know more about men who sought and had sex with men in eighteenth-century Paris than in any other city at the time. Police records provide information about thousands of sodomites who were arrested and thousands more who were not. Michel Rey explored the sodomitical culture of the capital in five articles, based on one set of sources, published from 1982 to 1994. No one has completed his pioneering work in the archives and challenged his anachronistic conclusions about identity, community, and effeminacy.This book, the first on the subject based on extensive research in all of the relevant |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Gay people -- France -- 18th century
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Sodomy -- France -- 18th century
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European history.
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Gay & Lesbian studies.
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Gay people
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Sodomy
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1527561372 |
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9781527561373 |
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