LEADER 03941nam 2200541 450 001 9910136083303321 005 20230810001239.0 010 $a1-5036-0097-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503600973 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915275 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721248 035 $a(DE-B1597)564569 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503600973 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929630 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915275 100 $a20160405h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe courtesan and the gigolo $ethe murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris /$fAaron Freundschuh 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-5036-0082-3 311 $a1-5036-0015-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom Widows' Alle?e to Avenue Montaigne : elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris -- The crime scene : gathering the evidence and searching for a motive -- A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris -- The courtesan's objects : sexual danger and the high life of the demimonde -- Colonial picaresque : the trans-Mediterranean investigation of a colonial migrant -- Criminal detection as colonial war by other means : investigative claims on the Latin-American "rastaquoue?re" -- The trial of a gigolo : intimacy, foreignness, and the Boulangist crisis -- The skin affair : punishment and the colonial body -- Conclusion : on imperial insecurity. 330 $aThe intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death?the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players?reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates?who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Freundschuh deftly weaves together the sensational details of the case with the social and political undercurrents of the time, arguing that the racially charged portrayal of Pranzini reflects a mounting anxiety about the colonial "Other" within France's own borders. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France. 606 $aMurder$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMurder$xInvestigation$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aXenophobia$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yThird Republic, 1870-1940 615 0$aMurder$xHistory 615 0$aMurder$xInvestigation$xHistory 615 0$aTrials (Murder)$xHistory 615 0$aXenophobia$xHistory 676 $a364.152/30944361 700 $aFreundschuh$b Aaron$01249055 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136083303321 996 $aThe courtesan and the gigolo$92894741 997 $aUNINA