Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France

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Napoleonic Friendship 7:8DB>C:H :9>IDGH Sarah Way Sherman, Department of English, University of New Hampshire Janet Aikins Yount, Department of English, University of New Hampshire Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England Janet Polasky, Department of History, University of New Hampshire This book series maps the complexity of historical change and assesses the formation of ideas, movements, and institutions crucial to our own time by publishing books that examine the emergence of modernity in North America and Europe. Set primarily but not exclusively in the nineteenth century, the series shifts attention from modernity’s twentieth-century forms to its earlier moments of uncertain and often disputed construction. Seeking books of interest to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it thereby encourages the expansion of nineteenth-century studies and the exploration of more global patterns of development. For a complete list of books available in this series, see www.upne.com Brian Joseph Martin, Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France Andrew Taylor, Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Identity Elizabeth A. Fay, Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism Katherine Joslin, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion Daneen Wardrop, Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing Ronald D. LeBlanc, Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction Barbara Penner, Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America Christine Levecq, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing,  –  Jennifer J. Popiel, Rousseau’s Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France Paula Young Lee, editor, Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse Duncan Faherty, Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, –  Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London,  –  Scott Molloy, Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line 7G>6C ?DH:E= B6GI>C B>A>I6GN ;G6I:GC>IN >CI>B68N 6C9 H:MJ6A>IN >C C>C:I::CI= 8:CIJGN ;G6C8: University of New Hampshire Press Durham, New Hampshire Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London Napoleonic Friendship university of new hampshire press Published by University Press of New England www.upne.com ∫ 2011 University of New Hampshire All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Eric M. Brooks Typeset in Monotype Bulmer by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Portions of this book have been previously published and are reprinted here by permission of the copyright holders: Brian Martin, ‘‘Military Bedfellows and Napoleonic Mentors: Intimacy and Friendship in the Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne.’’ Reprinted with permission from Romanic Review 101.2 (May 2010). ∫ 2010 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Brian Martin, ‘‘From Balzac to Iraq: Soldiers, Veterans, and Military Adaptation,’’ The Comparatist 30 (May 2006): 68–80. Brian Martin, ‘‘Corporal A√airs: French Military Fiction from Zola to Proust,’’ in The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature, and the Arts, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005), 103–22. Published with the permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. 5 4 3 2 1 My heart was as empty as a lover who has lost the object of his passion . . . But now I am like a lover who has rediscovered his desire; I o√er my body to support His Majesty. Long live the Emperor! soldier jean bordenave (1815) I set out to look for one of my friends, the one with whom I was most intimately linked, the one with whom I had never counted debts; our purses were one and the same. sergeant françois bourgogne (1835) This fraternity of peril had strengthened friendship for some and created new friendships for others. Friendship that forms on the field of battle is one of lasting duration. captain elzéar blaze (1837) I loved him, my brave comrade, and would not leave him to the enemy. captain jean...