Policing same-sex relations in eighteenth-century Paris: archival voices from 1785

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Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to hear th...

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Contributors: Merrick, Jeffrey (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Univeristy Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Girard, René 1923-2015
RelBib Classification:TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B homosexuality
B Male homosexuality
B Enlightenment
B Homosexualité masculine - France - Paris - Histoire - 18e siècle - Sources
B Charles Convers Desormeaux
B public spaces
B History
B Male homosexuality (France) (Paris) History 18th century Sources
B interviews
B France - Paris
B police dossiers
B sodomy
B Sodomy (France) (Paris) History 18th century Sources
B Sodomy
B Europe / France / HISTORY
B primary sources
B Commentary
B lived experience of men who desired men
B history of sexuality
B eighteenth-century France
B Spring
B Sources
B police
B oral histories
B Paris
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic

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