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The Kept Women Of 18th-Century Paris, And The Police Who Kept Tabs On Them

ISSUES Posted: April 16, 2014 12:44 am

Europe’s first vice squad “compiled vast dossiers of information on the city’s elite sex workers and their patrons. But they rarely acted on that information. To this day, it remains a mystery why the Parisian police spent so much time and effort observing an underground economy it apparently had no interest in curtailing. But their files are an historian’s dream.”

ISSUES Published: 04.15.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 04.15.14

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