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16 Nicolas Le Roux, La faveur du roi: Mignons et courtisans au temps des derniers
Valois (vers 1647–vers 1589) (Paris: Champ Vallon, 2001), 653–5.
17 Jeffrey Merrick, ‘The Cardinal and the Queen: Sexual and Political Disorders
in the Mazarinades’, French Historical Studies 18 (1994):667–99; Lewis C.
Seifert, ‘Eroticizing the Fronde: Sexual Deviance and Political Disorder in
the Mazarinades’, L’Esprit Créateur 35 (1995):22–36.
18 Pierre Chevallier, Louis XIII, roi cornélien (Paris: Fayard, 1979), 453–5.
19 Nancy Nichols Barker, Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orléans
(Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 57. See also
Didier Godard, Le goût de Monsieur (Montblanc: H & O Éditions, 2002).
20 There are several editions of Madame’s letters, including Letters from
Liselotte, ed. Maria Kroll (London: Allison & Busby, 1998). See Dirk Van der
Cruysse, Madame Palatine, Princesse européenne (Paris: Fayard, 1988), esp.
chapter 5: ‘Entre Saint-Cloud et Sodome: Monsieur, prince gay’.
21 See Lever, Les bûchers, 156–67; the original source is ‘La France devenue
italienne,’ in Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, Histoire amoureuse des
Gaules, ed. Paul Boiteau and C.L. Livet, 4 vols (Paris: Jannet et Daffis,
1856–76), 3:345–60. See also Marc Daniel [Michel Duchein], Hommes du
grand siècle: Études sur l’homosexualité sous les règnes de Louis XIII et Louis
XIV (Paris: Arcadie, [1957]).
22 Robert Oresko, ‘Homosexuality and Court Elites of Early Modern France:
Some Problems, Suggestions, and an Example’, in Gerard and Hekma,
Pursuit of Sodomy, 105–28.
23 Philippe-Joseph Salazar, ‘Herculean Lovers: Toward a History of Men’s
Friendship in the 17 th Century’, Thamyris 4 (1997):249–66; Marc D.
Schachter, ‘ “That Friendship Which Possesses the Soul”: Montaigne Loves
La Boétie’, in Merrick and Sibalis, Homosexuality in French History and
Culture, 5–21. For quotation, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, ed. Jacob
Zeitlin, 3 vols (NY: Knopf, 1934–36), 1:166.
24 David Parris, ‘Viau, Théophile de’, and ‘Guez de Balzac, Louis’, in Aldrich
and Wotherspoon, Who’s Who, 194, 461–2.
25 David Wootten, ‘Unhappy Voltaire, or “I Shall Never Get Over It As Long as
I Live” ‘, History Workshop Journal 50 (Autumn 2000):137–55.
26 Olivier Blanc, L’amour à Paris au temps de Louis XVI (Paris: Perrin, 2002); for
Cambacérès, see 67–71.
27 Cissie Fairchilds, Domestic Enemies: Servants and their Masters in Old Regime
France (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983),
187.
28 On the mouches, their reports and their changing tactics, see especially the
works by Lever and Rey, cited in note 9.
29 Rey, ‘Les sodomites’, 43.
30 Merrick, ‘Sodomitical inclinations’, 291–2.
31 Quoted in Rey, ‘Les sodomites’, 11.
32 Quoted in Rey, ‘Les sodomites’, 26.
33 Archives nationales [henceforth AN], Y 11724, 17 Sept. 1784.
34 Arlette Farge, Vivre dans le rue à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Gallimard/
Julliard, 1979), 38.
35 Quoted in Lever, Les bûchers, 300.