The Courtesan and the Gigolo

Aaron Freundschuh is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York.

1. Elite Cosmopolitanism and Gentrification in Western Paris

2. The Crime Scene

3. A Reporter's Ambition: Georges Grison and the Rise of Investigative Crime Reporting in Paris

4. The Courtesan's Objects: Sexual Danger and the High Life of the Demimonde

5. Colonial Picaresque: The Trans-Mediterranean Investigation of a Migrant

6. Criminal Detection as Colonial War by other Means: Investigative Claims on the Latin-American Rastaquouè re

7. The Trial of a Gigolo: Intimacy, Foreignness, and the Boulangist Crisis

8. The Skin Affair: Punishment and the Colonial Body

Conclusion: On Imperial Insecurity