Napoleonic friendship : military fraternity, intimacy, and sexuality in nineteenth-century France / Brian Joseph Martin.

Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press : Hanover ; London : University Press of New England, [2011], ©2011.

xvii, 379 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-350) and index.

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.