Jeffrey Merrick is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Order and Disorder Under the Ancien Régime and coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“As both a research intervention and a teaching tool, Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades accomplishes a rare feat. It simultaneously showcases the process and the results of archival research.”—Andrew Israel Ross H-France

• ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Glossary IntroductionPart I: Surveillance of the Parisian SubcultureA. Reports from the Archives of the BastilleB. Reports of the Watch/Guard and the CommissairesC. Reports of the Swiss Guard in the Champs-Élysées and the CommissairesD. Reports of Commissaires Foucault and DesormeauxPart II: Representations of Same-Sex RelationsE. Gossip and SlanderF. TraditionG. EnlightenmentH. FictionsNotesRecommended ReadingIndex

Jeffrey Merrick is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Order and Disorder Under the Ancien Régime and coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“As both a research intervention and a teaching tool, Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades accomplishes a rare feat. It simultaneously showcases the process and the results of archival research.”—Andrew Israel Ross H-France

• ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Glossary IntroductionPart I: Surveillance of the Parisian SubcultureA. Reports from the Archives of the BastilleB. Reports of the Watch/Guard and the CommissairesC. Reports of the Swiss Guard in the Champs-Élysées and the CommissairesD. Reports of Commissaires Foucault and DesormeauxPart II: Representations of Same-Sex RelationsE. Gossip and SlanderF. TraditionG. EnlightenmentH. FictionsNotesRecommended ReadingIndex

Jeffrey Merrick is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Order and Disorder Under the Ancien Régime and coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

“As both a research intervention and a teaching tool, Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades accomplishes a rare feat. It simultaneously showcases the process and the results of archival research.”—Andrew Israel Ross H-France

• ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Glossary IntroductionPart I: Surveillance of the Parisian SubcultureA. Reports from the Archives of the BastilleB. Reports of the Watch/Guard and the CommissairesC. Reports of the Swiss Guard in the Champs-Élysées and the CommissairesD. Reports of Commissaires Foucault and DesormeauxPart II: Representations of Same-Sex RelationsE. Gossip and SlanderF. TraditionG. EnlightenmentH. FictionsNotesRecommended ReadingIndex