J Merrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 33668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Merrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrick |
| SIGNATURE | MERRICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0041-8274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sodomy, Subculture, and Surveillance in Paris, 1739–47
Recently digested evidence from the 1740s confirms both patterns and variety in the sodomitical subculture of Paris in the 1720s and 1730s that historians have already analyzed. Men who desired men understood the methods and hazards of solicitation in the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens, where the police deployed decoys to entrap them. Records of arrest demonstrate continuity over three decades as well as evolution in practices of surveillance. …
Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness
Parenting shapes the development of emotion regulation skills in early childhood, laying a key foundation for social‐emotional adjustment. Unfortunately, high adversity exposure may disrupt parental emotion socialization practices and children's regulatory development. The current study used variable‐ and person‐centered approaches to evaluate links among parental emotion expressiveness, children's observed emotion regulation, and teacher‐reporte…
Records from a World We Have Lost
Journal Article Records from a World We Have Lost Get access Julie Hardwick. Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 280. Cloth $38.95. Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue…
Father, Lackey, Son, Friend, and Voltaire
In a letter to Voltaire dated 27 January 1774, Jean Benjamin de La Borde reported that his friend the duc de Sully had surprised his father, the duc de Béthune, in flagrante delicto with a lackey. This article analyzes the narrative and the incident in the context of literary and archival evidence about sexual relations between noblemen and workingmen in eighteenth-century Paris. Nobles who sought and had sex with men, more often in private than …
New Sources and Questions for Research on Sexual Relations between Men in Eighteenth‐Century France
Ces affaires sont toujours fâcheuses’
Louis Marie, comte de Sainte-Maure, and Marie Des Chiens de la Neuville were married in 1720 and separated by judicial decision in 1731. This case deserves and rewards study because it is both typical in some ways and not in others. It followed the usual process, from complaint to lawsuit, including depositions by witnesses and memoirs by lawyers, and involved the usual issues, verbal and physical violence, sexual and financial misconduct, privat…
Claude Amable de Cohade de La Garderie
The merchant Claude Amable de Cohade de La Garderie, arrested and imprisoned in 1773 as a result of family disputes, revealed a Jesuit conspiracy to destroy the parlements and the Bourbon dynasty. His dossier in the Archives de la Bastille contains three hundred pages, including two dozen letters and mémoires in which he summarized his biography, recounted his conflicts with his wife, his brother, and his lawyer, all of whom claimed that he was d…
A Fabric of Infamy”
It Is Better to Die”
As he explained in his suicide note, abbé Jean-Baptiste Rousseau could not marry and would not seduce the young woman he loved, so he shot himself on 18 May 1784. Witnesses deposed by the police claimed that he was not in his right mind and therefore not legally responsible for his actions, but the authors of contemporary reports about the case accepted his lucid account of his dilemma. Nouvellistes and journalists provided multiple versions of h…
Louis XV’s Black Son
On 14 May 1775 Siméon Prosper Hardy recorded a bizarre rumour that Louis XV had a black son who claimed the French throne, occupied for just a year by Louis XVI, with the support of troops, the late king’s daughters, and the prince de Condé. This article explores folkloric, sexual, and symbolic aspects of the rumour against the background of the transition between regimes, courtly factions and frictions, popular dissatisfaction with the old and n…
Patterns and Concepts in the Sodomitical Subculture of Eighteenth-Century Paris
Michel Rey explored the sodomitical subculture of eighteenth-century Paris in a series of articles published in the 1980s and 1990s. He collected evidence from the separate morals series in the Archives of the Bastille, which contains police reports about entrapments, mostly in the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens, from 1715 to 1749, but he did not explore the regular prisoners series, which contains many more cases from those decades, as well as…
Rescued from the River
This article, focused on ordinary men and women who attempted to drown themselves in the Seine in 1779, illustrates the problems and rewards involved in researching suicide in a variety of complementary sources, published and unpublished, produced by municipal officials and social commentators in eighteenth-century Paris. These sources allow us to hear the voices of individuals who tried to end their lives in the river and to see how others recor…
Domestic Violence in Paris, 1775
In 1775, 135 wives and 35 husbands filed complaints against their spouses with the Parisian commissioners of police. Most of the wives charged their husbands with verbal and physical violence, and a few of them initiated lawsuits for separation of property and/or persons. In those cases, the depositions of witnesses document conventional expectations about gendered roles in the household as well as the dynamics of communication, representation, a…
Louis XV's Deathbed Apology
Suicide and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France
Research Article| April 01 2006 Suicide and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 32–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2005-002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Merrick; Suicide and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France. Eighteenth-Century Life 1…
Chaussons in the Streets
Chaussons in the Streets: Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Paris Jeffrey Merrick University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee We have learned a great deal in recent years about the sodomitical subculture of Paris in the eighteenth century, but we know relatively little about the seventeenth century because of the shortage of documentation. When Louis XIV created the office of lieutenant general of police in 1667, he may have envisioned or even expected the su…
Male Friendship in Prerevolutionary France
Research Article| June 01 2004 MALE FRIENDSHIP IN PREREVOLUTIONARY FRANCE Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 407–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-3-407 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Merrick; MALE FRIENDSHIP IN PREREVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. GLQ 1 June 2004; 10 (3): 407–432. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Prodigal Sons and Family Values in Eighteenth-Century France
French preachers and philosophes used the parable of the prodigal son, like other examples of domestic order and disorder, to illustrate their versions of human nature and social relations. The preachers generally emphasized the necessity for obedience to and discipline by the husband and father in order to control sinfulness in the form of dangerous desires. The philosophes generally emphasized the opportunity for and obligation of families to c…
"Nocturnal Birds" in the Champs-Elysées
Research Article| June 01 2002 “NOCTURNAL BIRDS” IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES: Police and Pederasty in Prerevolutionary Paris Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 425–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Merrick; “NOCTURNAL BIRDS” IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES: Police and Peder…
Brutal Passion" and "Depraved Taste
Sodomites and Police in Paris, 1715
The Archives of the Bastille in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal include hundreds of police reports, none of them currently available in English or even in print, about male same-sex relations in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century. The documents translated here, interrogations of eight men arrested in 1715, provide information about networks and prostitution, age and class, surveillance and deception in the sodomitical subculture …
Rousseau's Suicide Note
Before shooting himself on 17 May 1784, abbé Rousseau wrote a note explaining his reasons for committing suicide. Using the limited information and library conventions available to them, contemporaries retold his story and rewrote his note in ways that made sense to them in human terms or served their polemical purposes. Keywords: Paris Police Records Political Culture Abbe Rousseau Suicide
Sodomitical Scandals and Subcultures in the 1720s
Published letters, memoirs, and pamphlets discuss two scandals involving sexual relations between noblemen at Versailles in 1722 and 1724. Unpublished police records document the entrapment of some forty men, many of them unmarried workingmen, in Parisian parks in 1723. This article compares the patterns in and representations of same-sex relations in the different sources and milieux. The literary sources generally describe the courtiers who com…
The Body Politics of French Absolutism
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France
"A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption"--Provided by publisher.
Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noel, and the "Pederasts" of Paris, 1780-3
Journal Article Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noël, and the "Pederasts" of Paris, 1780–3 Get access Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of HistoryMilwaukee, WI 53201 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 287–307, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.287 Published: 01 December 1998
New Sources and Questions for Research on Sexual Relations between Men in Eighteenth‐Century France
Sodomites and Police in Paris, 1715
The Archives of the Bastille in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal include hundreds of police reports, none of them currently available in English or even in print, about male same-sex relations in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century. The documents translated here, interrogations of eight men arrested in 1715, provide information about networks and prostitution, age and class, surveillance and deception in the sodomitical subculture …
Sodomitical Scandals and Subcultures in the 1720s
Published letters, memoirs, and pamphlets discuss two scandals involving sexual relations between noblemen at Versailles in 1722 and 1724. Unpublished police records document the entrapment of some forty men, many of them unmarried workingmen, in Parisian parks in 1723. This article compares the patterns in and representations of same-sex relations in the different sources and milieux. The literary sources generally describe the courtiers who com…
The Cardinal and the Queen
When Louis XIII died in 1643, he left his realm in the hands of his five-year-old son, the future Sun King, his Spanish wife, Anne of Austria, and his Italian minister, Cardinal Jules Mazarin. During the minority of Louis XIV, against the background of costly involvement in the Thirty Years' War, resistance to the fiscal exactions of the crown and the progress of royal absolutism precipitated the rebellion known as the Fronde.' This disruptive ci…
Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness
Parenting shapes the development of emotion regulation skills in early childhood, laying a key foundation for social‐emotional adjustment. Unfortunately, high adversity exposure may disrupt parental emotion socialization practices and children's regulatory development. The current study used variable‐ and person‐centered approaches to evaluate links among parental emotion expressiveness, children's observed emotion regulation, and teacher‐reporte…
Claude Amable de Cohade de La Garderie
The merchant Claude Amable de Cohade de La Garderie, arrested and imprisoned in 1773 as a result of family disputes, revealed a Jesuit conspiracy to destroy the parlements and the Bourbon dynasty. His dossier in the Archives de la Bastille contains three hundred pages, including two dozen letters and mémoires in which he summarized his biography, recounted his conflicts with his wife, his brother, and his lawyer, all of whom claimed that he was d…
A Fabric of Infamy”
It Is Better to Die”
As he explained in his suicide note, abbé Jean-Baptiste Rousseau could not marry and would not seduce the young woman he loved, so he shot himself on 18 May 1784. Witnesses deposed by the police claimed that he was not in his right mind and therefore not legally responsible for his actions, but the authors of contemporary reports about the case accepted his lucid account of his dilemma. Nouvellistes and journalists provided multiple versions of h…
Prodigal Sons and Family Values in Eighteenth-Century France
French preachers and philosophes used the parable of the prodigal son, like other examples of domestic order and disorder, to illustrate their versions of human nature and social relations. The preachers generally emphasized the necessity for obedience to and discipline by the husband and father in order to control sinfulness in the form of dangerous desires. The philosophes generally emphasized the opportunity for and obligation of families to c…
"Nocturnal Birds" in the Champs-Elysées
Research Article| June 01 2002 “NOCTURNAL BIRDS” IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES: Police and Pederasty in Prerevolutionary Paris Jeffrey Merrick Jeffrey Merrick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 425–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Merrick; “NOCTURNAL BIRDS” IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES: Police and Peder…
Brutal Passion" and "Depraved Taste
Politics in the pulpit
1986). Politics in the pulpit: ecclesiastical discourse on the death of Louis XV. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 149-160
Judicial Reform in France Before the Revolution of 1789
The Entry of Henri II into Paris, 16 June 1549 . I. D. McFarlane Le roi-machine
"Disputes over Words" and Constitutional Conflict in France, 1730-1732
When the Parisian lawyer Matthieu Marais complained in 1729 that he was very tired of the Constitution,1 he referred not to the unwritten constitution of the realm but to the papal Constitution, Unigenitus (1713), which condemned one hundred one allegedly erroneous propositions extracted from Pasquier Quesnel's Jansenist commentary on the New Testament. Designed by Rome and Versailles to seal doctrinal orthodoxy in France after half a century of …
Politics in the pulpit
1986). Politics in the pulpit: ecclesiastical discourse on the death of Louis XV. History of European Ideas: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 149-160
Conscience and Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France
THE WORD CITIZEN, according to the dictionary of the French Academy of 1694, meant simply bourgeois, resident of a city. This loose usage exasperated Rousseau, the citizen of Geneva, who complained that the French applied the word to themselves without understanding its real meaning, as one can see from their dictionaries.1 In Rousseau's polity, of course, citizens by definition participated the sovereign authority. He recognized that the French …
The Ancien Regime
Louis XV
Subjects and Citizens in the Remonstrances of the Parlement of Paris in the Eighteenth Century
Everyone parades the name of these days, grumbled the abbe Bouniol de Montegut in 1756.1 Six years later Rousseau complained that the French applied this name to themselves without understanding its real meaning.2 As the self-styled genuine Catholic patriot and the self-styled of Geneva suggested, their contemporaries used the word citizen both loosely and frequently. Loosely, as if synonymous with subject, inasmuch as the principles of divine-ri…
The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century.
Politics on Pedestals
POLITICS ON PEDESTALS: ROYAL MONUMENTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Get access JEFFREY MERRICK JEFFREY MERRICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 1991, Pages 234–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/5.2.234 Published: 01 June 1991
Europe
Work and Wages
The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century
Lettres d'Andre Morellet. Volume I
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.” Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledg…
The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century
The Fabrication of Louis XIV
A Cultural History of the French Revolution
Family and festivals
(1993). Family and festivals: Social integration and disintegration in morellet's critique of the French revolution. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 599-614
The Cardinal and the Queen
When Louis XIII died in 1643, he left his realm in the hands of his five-year-old son, the future Sun King, his Spanish wife, Anne of Austria, and his Italian minister, Cardinal Jules Mazarin. During the minority of Louis XIV, against the background of costly involvement in the Thirty Years' War, resistance to the fiscal exactions of the crown and the progress of royal absolutism precipitated the rebellion known as the Fronde.' This disruptive ci…
Homosexuality in Modern France
Research in the Field of Gay and Lesbian Studies has exploded in recent years, but the books published to date focus more on literary than historical issues, and concentrate more on the United States and Great Britain than the rest of the world. Given the role of gays and lesbians in modern French culture, not to mention the importance of the work of French scholars on the history of sexuality, France has been underrepresented in recent publicati…
Revolt in Prerevolutionary France
"Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti’s Conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755-1757, by John D. Woodbridge." Canadian Journal of History, 31(1), pp. 102–103
The Family Politics of the Marquis De Bombelles
The voluminous journal of Marc-Marie de Bombelles (1744-1822) provides abundant documentation of the cultivation of affective relations within the family as well as the connections between private and public affairs in the last years of the Ancien Regime. The marquis represented himself as a devoted son, brother, husband, and father who sought and found happiness en famille. He renounced certain attitudes and conduct traditionally associated with…
Homosexuality in Modern France
The Body Politics of French Absolutism
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