Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis

• ContentsIntroduction “That Friendship which Possesses the Soul”: Montaigne Loves La Boétie Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s “Historie de Sapho” Masculinity and Satires of “Sodomites” in France, 1660-1715 The Abominable Madame de Murat The “Italian Taste” in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92 “Brutal Passion” and “Depraved Taste”: The Case of Jacques-François Pascal “Au sein de vos pareilles”: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France Homosexuals in the City: Representatives of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s Drames d’amour de pédérastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture Homosexuality in the French Colonies Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: A New “Precious” Society The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978 Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other? Contributors Index Reference Notes Included

Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis

• ContentsIntroduction “That Friendship which Possesses the Soul”: Montaigne Loves La Boétie Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s “Historie de Sapho” Masculinity and Satires of “Sodomites” in France, 1660-1715 The Abominable Madame de Murat The “Italian Taste” in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92 “Brutal Passion” and “Depraved Taste”: The Case of Jacques-François Pascal “Au sein de vos pareilles”: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France Homosexuals in the City: Representatives of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s Drames d’amour de pédérastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture Homosexuality in the French Colonies Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: A New “Precious” Society The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978 Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other? Contributors Index Reference Notes Included

Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis

• ContentsIntroduction “That Friendship which Possesses the Soul”: Montaigne Loves La Boétie Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s “Historie de Sapho” Masculinity and Satires of “Sodomites” in France, 1660-1715 The Abominable Madame de Murat The “Italian Taste” in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92 “Brutal Passion” and “Depraved Taste”: The Case of Jacques-François Pascal “Au sein de vos pareilles”: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France Homosexuals in the City: Representatives of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s Drames d’amour de pédérastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture Homosexuality in the French Colonies Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: A New “Precious” Society The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978 Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other? Contributors Index Reference Notes Included