By Brian Joseph Martin
ISBN-10: 1584659564
ISBN-13: 9781584659563
Following the French Revolution, radical army reforms created stipulations for brand new actual and emotional intimacy among infantrymen, constructing a version of fraternal affection that may persist from the progressive and Napoleonic wars in the course of the Franco-Prussian warfare and international struggle I.
Based on broad examine in French and American information, and enriched through his studying of Napoleonic army memoirs and French army fiction from Hugo and Balzac to Zola and Proust, Brian Joseph Martin's view features a large diversity of emotional and erotic relationships in French armies from 1789 to 1916. He argues that the French Revolution's emphasis on army fraternity developed into an unparalleled experience of camaraderie between infantrymen within the armies of Napoleon. for plenty of squaddies, the hardships of strive against resulted in intimate friendships. For a few, the homosociality of army lifestyles encouraged mutual affection, lifelong dedication, and homoerotic wish.
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