Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis

"Should be required reading for anybody seeking to understand the varieties of French, and especially Parisian, LGBTQ lives!" - David Higgs, Ph.D.; "An indispensable text on the history of sexuality in...France." - Robert A. Nye, Ph.D.; "A dazzling collection." - Randolph Trumbach, Ph.D.

• 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

"Should be required reading for anybody seeking to understand the varieties of French, and especially Parisian, LGBTQ lives!" - David Higgs, Ph.D.; "An indispensable text on the history of sexuality in...France." - Robert A. Nye, Ph.D.; "A dazzling collection." - Randolph Trumbach, Ph.D.

• 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

"Should be required reading for anybody seeking to understand the varieties of French, and especially Parisian, LGBTQ lives!" - David Higgs, Ph.D.; "An indispensable text on the history of sexuality in...France." - Robert A. Nye, Ph.D.; "A dazzling collection." - Randolph Trumbach, Ph.D.

• 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