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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Main Author: Myriam Deniel-Ternant
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Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3005
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description 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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Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
Genre, Sexualité et Société
prostitution
sexuality
police
Paris
clergy
title Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
title_full Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
title_fullStr Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
title_full_unstemmed Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
title_short Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières
title_sort paris capitale de la deviance ecclesiastique au siecle des lumieres
topic prostitution
sexuality
police
Paris
clergy
url https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3005
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