The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris / Aaron Freundschuh.
2017
DC337 .F855 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris / Aaron Freundschuh.
Author
Freundschuh, Aaron, author.
ISBN
9781503600829 (paperback)
1503600823 (paperback)
9781503600157 (hardcover)
1503600157 (hardcover)
9781503600973 (electronic book)
1503600971
1503600823 (paperback)
9781503600157 (hardcover)
1503600157 (hardcover)
9781503600973 (electronic book)
1503600971
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
258 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Call Number
DC337 .F855 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152/30944361
Summary
The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Freundschuh deftly weaves together the sensational details of the case with the social and political undercurrents of the time, arguing that the racially charged portrayal of Pranzini reflects a mounting anxiety about the colonial "Other" within France's own borders. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-251) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.