Sexual Crime, Religion and Masculinity in fin-de-siècle France The Flamidien Affair /

• Main Author: Verhoeven, Timothy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
• Subjects: France-History.; Religion-History.; Gender identity.; Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; History of France.; History of Religion.; Gender and Sexuality.; History of Modern Europe.; Political History.

This book explores a vital though long-neglected clash between republicans and Catholics that rocked fin-de-siècle France. At its heart was a mysterious and shocking crime. In Lille in 1899, the body of twelve-year-old Gaston Foveaux was discovered in a school run by a Catholic congregation, the Fr...