Abstract
Chapter 2 investigates Léon Laurent-Pichat’s emotional ties with his closest friends as they entered adulthood in the 1840s. His relationships with his male friends and with his half-sister Rosine provide illuminating examples of the ‘Romantic friendships’ characteristic of the period, which were frequently marked by intense emotion and undertones of sexual attraction. Further, as part of the ‘generation of 1848’, the group was indelibly affected by the Revolution of February 1848 that installed the Second Republic and by the coup d’état of December 1851 that overthrew it. The chapter traces the friends’ emerging political loyalties in the 1840s, and a painful rupture in 1851 when Laurent-Pichat’s closest friend became a Bonapartist. It establishes the origins of several of Laurent-Pichat’s most important friendships and underlines the crucial role that friendship was to play, not only in sustaining emotional wellbeing, but also in supporting the republican cause under the hostile Empire.
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