Robert A. Nye is Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is the author of Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France (1984).

• 1 Introduction: Sex, Society, and Identity2 Honor and Male Identity in the Old Regime3 The Roots of Bourgeois Honorability4 Sex Difference and the "Separate Spheres" 5 Population, Degeneration, and Reproduction6 Male Sexual Identity and the "Perversions" in the Fin de Siecle7 Bourgeois Sociability and the Point d'Honneur:1800-18608 The Culture of the Sword: Manliness and Fencing in the Third Republic9 Honor and the Duel in the Third Republic, 1860-1914Dueling and the LawHow Many Duels? The Journalistic DuelThe Political DuelThe "Serious" DuelThe "Futile" Duel10 Conclusion: CourageNotesBibliography of Selected Secondary WorksIndex

Robert A. Nye is Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is the author of Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France (1984).

• 1 Introduction: Sex, Society, and Identity2 Honor and Male Identity in the Old Regime3 The Roots of Bourgeois Honorability4 Sex Difference and the "Separate Spheres" 5 Population, Degeneration, and Reproduction6 Male Sexual Identity and the "Perversions" in the Fin de Siecle7 Bourgeois Sociability and the Point d'Honneur:1800-18608 The Culture of the Sword: Manliness and Fencing in the Third Republic9 Honor and the Duel in the Third Republic, 1860-1914Dueling and the LawHow Many Duels? The Journalistic DuelThe Political DuelThe "Serious" DuelThe "Futile" Duel10 Conclusion: CourageNotesBibliography of Selected Secondary WorksIndex