Mapping Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Featuring Jessica Tanner, Assistant Professor of French

In nineteenth-century Paris, administrators saw the regulation of prostitution as a means of imposing order in a rapidly evolving city. By plotting spaces from brothels to boulevards, novelists likewise turned to prostitution to make sense of Paris in their fictions.

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