The “Policing Male Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Paris” database will allow students and scholars to investigate many issues in the lives of sodomites and pederasts in that time and place. Francophone readers may consult the photographs of the documents appended to each record. Anglophone readers may explore the reports of commissaire Pierre Louis Foucault, responsible for the surveillance of same sex relations in the capital from 1780 to 1783. Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan have translated and annotated these sources and published them online, accessible to anyone interested in the history of sexuality.

Suggested Citation of the book:

Merrick, Jeffrey, and Bryant T. Ragan, eds.  Policing Homosexuality in Pre-Revolutionary Paris.  Colorado Springs: 2021.  Available on the Policing Male Homosexuality: 18^th-Century Paris Database website, http://coloradocollegewebsite/phs/.