The Coachman's Bare Rump: An Eighteenth-Century French Cover-Up
On 21 January 1763, a wealthy nobleman staged a performance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Devin de village at his Parisian townhouse. The soir裠was attended by military and financial elites. After the curtain fell, several of the master's servants were joking with each other backstage. When th...
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| Published in | Eighteenth-century studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 279 - 308 |
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| Abstract | On 21 January 1763, a wealthy nobleman staged a performance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Devin de village at his Parisian townhouse. The soir裠was attended by military and financial elites. After the curtain fell, several of the master's servants were joking with each other backstage. When the coachman dropped his trousers and displayed his buttocks to a young black page, the latter abruptly raised the curtain to expose the coachman's bare rump to the remaining elites in the room. Their master then called the neighborhood police to arrest the coachman. This article explores issues of social distinction, race, and state authority raised by this incident. |
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| AbstractList | When the case came to trial in December of that year, it attracted widespread media attention due to an exchange between the young man's Aboriginal Services legal defense lawyer and the police prosecutor.1 The defense attorney, Eugene O'Sullivan, argued that mooning the police was a form of political protest and should therefore be protected under the implied freedoms of the Australian constitution. Or, he may have been a sober, determined "larrikin" who understood his gesture to be a weapon of civil disobedience deployed in the long-standing conflict between his own aboriginal culture and the disciplinary institutions of the Australian state. On 21 January 1763, a wealthy nobleman staged a performance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Devin de village at his Parisian townhouse. The soir裠was attended by military and financial elites. After the curtain fell, several of the master's servants were joking with each other backstage. When the coachman dropped his trousers and displayed his buttocks to a young black page, the latter abruptly raised the curtain to expose the coachman's bare rump to the remaining elites in the room. Their master then called the neighborhood police to arrest the coachman. This article explores issues of social distinction, race, and state authority raised by this incident. On 21 January 1763, a wealthy nobleman staged a performance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Devin de village at his Parisian townhouse. The soirée was attended by military and financial elites. After the curtain fell, several of the master's servants were joking with each other backstage. When the coachman dropped his trousers and displayed his buttocks to a young black page, the latter abruptly raised the curtain to expose the coachman's bare rump to the remaining elites in the room. Their master then called the neighborhood police to arrest the coachman. This article explores issues of social distinction, race, and state authority raised by this incident. |
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