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The courtesan and the gigolo: the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
2017, Stanford University Press
in English
1503600157 9781503600157
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris
The crime scene
A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris
The courtesan's objects : sexual danger and the high life of the demimonde
Colonial picaresque : the trans-Mediterranean investigation of a migrant
Criminal detection as colonial war by other means : investigative claims on the Latin-American rastaquouère
The trial of a gigolo : intimacy, foreignness, and the Boulangist crisis
The skin affair : punishment and the colonial body
Conclusion : on imperial insecurity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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