La rhétorique révolutionnaire à l’épreuve des minorités sexuelles dans quatre pamphlets de la Révolution française
When the revolutionary rhetoric meets sexual minorities

Author(s): Przemysław Szczur
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: French Revolution; pamphlet; sexuality; sexual minority; Révolution française; sexualité; minorité sexuelle
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the way the rhetoric of human rights, characteristic of the French Revolution, deals with the subject of sexual minorities. The Revolution can be seen as a transition period in which the revolutionary rhetoric collides some ancient images of sexual minorities. The limits of this rhetoric are tested in pamphlets where these minorities appear and that are also full of ancient images: Les Enfans de Sodome à l’Assemblée Nationale, Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des macquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses, Les Petits Bougres au Manège and La Liberté ou Mlle Raucourt.

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