Homosexuality in French history and culture / Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis, editors.

"Homosexuality in French history and culture has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of homosexuality, volume 41, numbers 3/4 2001."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"That friendship which possesses the soul": Montaigne loves La Boétie / Marc D. Schachter -- Female friendship as the foundation of love in Madeleine de Scudéry's "Histoire de Sapho" / Leonard Hinds -- Masculinity and satires of "sodomites" in France, 1660-1715 / Lewis C. Seifert -- The abominable Madame de Murat / David Michael Robinson -- The "italian taste" in the time of Louis XVI, 1774-92 / Olivier Blanc -- "Brutal passion" and "depraved taste": the case of Jacques-François Pascal / Jeffrey Merrick -- "Au sein de vos pareilles": Sapphic separatism in late eighteenth-century France / Susan Lanser -- The Palais-Royal and the homosexual subculture of nineteenth-century Paris / Michael Sibalis -- "Les chevaliers de la guirlande": cellmates in Restoration France / Nicholas Dobelbower -- Homosexuals in the city: representations of lesbian and gay space in nineteenth-century Paris / Leslie Choquette -- Pederasts, prostitutes, and pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s / William A. Peniston -- "Drames d'amour des pédérastes": male same-sex sexuality in Belle Epoque print culture / Michael L. Wilson -- Homosexuality in the French colonies / Robert Aldrich -- Folles, swells, effeminates, and homophiles in Saint-Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: a new "precious" society? / Georges Sidéris -- The birth of a French homosexual press in the 1950s / Olivier Jablonski -- The construction of a political and media presence: the homosexual liberation groups in France between 1975 and 1978 / Jean Le Bitoux -- Gay mimesis and misogyny: two aspects of the same refusal of the other? / Marie-Jo Bonnet.