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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Gaston Foveaux: Lille and the War of Two Frances
• 3. Charles Delalé: Republicans, celibacy and the performance of masculinity
• 4. Dr Castiaux: Legal medicine, pederasty and effeminacy at the fin-de-siècle
• 5. Cyr: Catholic masculinity and the defence of Frère Flamidien
• 6. Les Flamidiens/Les Dreyfus: the School Question and Collective Guilt
• 7. Émile Zola: "Vérité" and the aftermath of the Affair
• Index.