Napoleon gay

Share it twitter facebook. Print Return to top. 19th century The French Emperor Napoleon, under whose rule homosexuality was legal in much of Italy – The Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Naples, and the other French client states in Europe adopt the Napoleonic Code, under which homosexuality was not a crime.

From the publishers : Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, establishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and World War I.

Based on extensive research in French and American archives, and supported by his reading of Napoleonic military memoirs and French military fiction from Hugo and Balzac to Zola and Proust, Brian Joseph Martin's view encompasses a broad range of emotional and erotic relationships in French armies from to He argues that the French Revolution's emphasis on military fraternity evolved into an unprecedented sense of camaraderie among soldiers in the armies of Napoleon.

Most notably, his rapport with Czar Alexander has contributed to theories suggesting his potential homosexuality or bisexuality. For some, the homosociality of military life inspired mutual affection, lifelong commitment, and homoerotic desire.

Napoleon was married twice, to women, but that hasn’t stopped people from speculating about his sexuality. Abstract This chapter examines the history of the regulation of male homosexuality in France during the period from to Consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex has been legal in France for two centuries and this is usually attributed to the influence of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès as second consul and then arch chancellor under Napoleon Bonaparte's.

He lived in an era where being openly and outwardly gay or bisexual was impossible – although if you were going to try it, France was probably the right place to be. Gay many soldiers, the hardships of combat led to intimate friendships.

Go to menu Go to content Go to search. Napoleon Bonaparte and Homosexuality: A Controversial Debate Speculation regarding Napoleon's sexual orientation trace back to his turbulent relationship with his napoleon and other male companions. While France is divided about Napoleon Bonaparte's legacy on the th anniversary of his death, a French historian maintains that he was a 'gay friendly' emperor.