page_title: LGBT history in France
section_title: 1600–1800
hierarchical_section_title: LGBT history in France / 1600–1800
context_section_description: 1779 – Written on July 21, 1776, the Letter LXIII became infamous for its discussion of homosexuality. Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert published the letter in his 1779 book, "L’Espion Anglois, Ou Correspondance Secrete Entre Milord All’eye et Milord Alle’ar" (aka "L’Observateur Anglais or L’Espion Anglais") ("The English Spy, or Secret Correspondence Between my Lord and my Lord All'eye Alle'ar" [aka "The English Observer or the English Spy"]).
  1783 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau discusses homosexuality in his Erotika Biblion.
  1789 – François-Rolland Elluin engraves an image of God's wrath against the homosexuals. Elluin engraved the image for the Liberté Opera's Le Pot-Pourri de Loth in Les Hymnes et les Potpourri.
  1791 – Revolutionary France (and Andorra) adopts a new penal code which no longer criminalizes sodomy. France thus becomes the first Western European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults .
caption: François Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le Pot-Pourri de Loth, 1789
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