Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
During the 18th century, Paris draws every kind of attention. As a microcosm, it gathers all three orders of French society, among which the Clergy were supposed to act as an example. Police sources, though, indicate some blatant sexual incontinence, seemingly triggered by the nature of the city its...
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Genre, Sexualité et Société
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Genre, Sexualité et Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3005 |
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| Summary: | During the 18th century, Paris draws every kind of attention. As a microcosm, it gathers all three orders of French society, among which the Clergy were supposed to act as an example. Police sources, though, indicate some blatant sexual incontinence, seemingly triggered by the nature of the city itself. Paris is subject to extremely dense police coverage, allowing every citizen or visitor’s intimacy to be gone over with a fine-tooth comb. Clerics are soon targeted in an actual « priest-hunt », according to people from that time. Those increasing surveillance actions and arrests are thought to be peculiar to Paris. The ensuing corpus acknowledging the attractiveness of the capital and some of its districts, did so by mapping the clerics’ locations along with places of prostitution. This study, far from featuring an exemplary side of Paris, aims at disclosing a peculiar one, through the temptations it conveys as much as through the ways of dealing with it. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3736 |