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In February 1899, the murder of a young boy in the northern French city of Lille set off a fierce contest between republicans and Catholics. The Flamidien Affair is an important though neglected episode in the clash that historians have labelled the War of Two Frances. What it reveals in particular is the role of masculinity in shaping the contest between republicans and Catholics at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Verhoeven, T. (2018). Introduction. In: Sexual Crime, Religion and Masculinity in fin-de-siècle France. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74479-7_1
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