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

Contents

contents acknowledgments ix prologue Gays in the Military xi introduction Napoleon Wept 1 part i Revolution to Empire (1789–1815) 1 Military Fraternity from the Revolution to Napoleon 19 2 Napoleonic Friendship at the Top Marshal Lannes, General Duroc, General Junot 40 3 Napoleonic Friendship in the Ranks General Marbot, Captain Coignet, Sergeant Bourgogne 68 part ii Waterloo (1815) 4 Wannabes and Waterloo: Stendhal’s Napoleonic Latecomers 103 5 Grave Friendship: Hugo’s Miserable Waterloo 126 6 An Army of Bachelors Napoleonic Veterans from Blaze to Balzac 148 part iii Restoration to Second Empire (1815–70) 7 Combat Companions and Veteran Bedfellows Balzac’s Major Hulot and Colonel Chabert 173 8 Military Daddies and Veteran Rogues Balzac’s Major Genestas and Colonel Bridau 200 9 Neo-Napoleonic Friendship Maupassant, Zola, and the War of 1870 229 conclusion Homo Military Modernity: Proust and the First World War 255 epilogue Unknown Soldiers 271 notes 273 bibliography 329 index 351 ...