Archéologie de l'inversion sexuelle "fin de siècle"
By: Georges Hérelle ; introduction, chronologie biographique, édition et annotation, Clive Thomson ; préface de Philippe Artières
Contributors: Thomson, Clive, editor; Artières, Philippe, writer of supplementary textual content
Series: Collection Les marches du temps; Marches du temps
Publisher: Éditions du Félin
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9782866458164
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Correspondence; Biography; Sources; Archives; Translators; Gays; Male homosexuality; Gay anthropologists; History
Other titles: Georges Hérelle :
Description: Georges Herelle was known as the French translator of the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and as a collector of Pastoral Basques. He also became one of the first great scientists, a passionate researcher and archivist of sexual inversion. At seventeen, upon arrival at the College Sainte-Barbe in Paris, he met Paul Bourget, the future academician, and fell in love with him. Their correspondence as well as the correspondence with their gay friends (archived by Herelle with all sorts of documents related to his investigation of sexual inversion: postcards, brochures, photographs, etc.) gives privileged access to social and literary circles of homosexuals at the end of the Second Empire.
Notes: Selected texts from the archive of the author's papers as bequeathed to the Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, including letters, memoirs, research notes, travel logs, etc.

Includes bibliographical references.