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

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
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: University Park, PA Penn State University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Paris / Homosexuality / Pederasty / Sodomy / Police report / Geschichte 1785
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Europe / France / HISTORY
B Commentary
B homosexuality
B lived experience of men who desired men
B Enlightenment
B Charles Convers Desormeaux
B history of sexuality
B eighteenth-century France
B public spaces
B Spring
B Male homosexuality (France) (Paris) History 18th century Sources
B interviews
B police
B oral histories
B LAW / Legal History
B 18th Century / HISTORY / Modern
B police dossiers
B sodomy
B Sodomy (France) (Paris) History 18th century Sources
B Paris
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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