Military fraternity from the revolution to Napoleon -- Napoleonic friendship at the top : Marshal Lannes, General Duroc, General Junot -- Napoleonic friendship in the ranks : General Marbot, Captain Coignet, Sergeant Bourgogne -- Wannabes and Waterloo : Stendhal's Napoleonic latecomers -- Grave friendship : Hugo's miserable Waterloo -- An army of bachelors : Napoleonic veterans from Blaze to Balzac -- Combat companions and veteran bedfellows : Balzac's Major Hulot and Colonel Chabert -- Military daddies and veteran rogues : Balzac's Major Genestas and Colonel Bridau -- Neo-Napoleonic friendship : Maupassant, Zola, and the War of 1870 -- Conclusion : homo military modernity: Proust and the First World War
The first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France
