Crossreferencing between Doron’s notes and the Ffl

A very rough guide

Claude-Olivier Doron’s editorial apparatus to the volume of Foucault’s lectures he edited (translated by Graham Burchell as Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures) is very useful, but there is an issue, in that what Doron means by “chemise” (usually translated by Burchell as simply “C.”) appears to differ from the meaning used by the team behind the Foucault fiches de lecture project, which has digitised a large amount of Foucault’s notes. As such, the references Doron provides can easily be misinterpreted. In what follows I have attempted to convert as many of Doron’s references into the Ffl team’s system as I can. What I’ve written could really use some editing, but hopefully its rough state won’t prevent it from being useful.

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Box 39 chemise 2:

He says (p. 22, note 22) box 39 chemise 2 holds information on Roman marriage law, but this is incorrect; the text cited is referenced, however, once in box 39 chemise 22, once in box 39 chemise 23, once in box 39 loose (feuillet 385), once in box 2 chemise 4 (probably Foucault moved it as he needed; this can be dismissed), and five times in box 39 chemise 24.

He says (pp. 198-199, note 7) that box 39 chemise 2 has a dossier on ‘La législation du mariage chrétien’ which is actually the title of box 39 chemise 24, and (p. 199, note 12) that it has a feuillet ‘canon law encourages marriage’, which is in box 39 chemise 24.

He says (p. 205, note 35) that box 39 chemise 2 has dossiers 10 and 11 on ‘The Revolution and marriage’ and ‘Marriage and the Civil Code’. The former is the title of box 39 chemise 22. The latter is the title of box 39 chemise 24.

He says (pp. 202-203, note 28) that box 39 chemise 2 has a series of dossiers on legislation about sexual acts and debates on incest, polygamy, sodomy, in 1600s and 1700s; this accurately describes the contents of box 39 chemises 22, 23, and 24. He says (p. 203, note 29) that it refers to a text by Julien Bonnecase; this text is referenced four times in the online archive (according to its metadata, which is incomplete), three times in box 39 chemise 22, once in box 39 chemise 23. He also cites (p. 203, note 31) a BNF file named ‘Le feminisme sous la revolution’ without specifying where it is; it is in box 39 chemise 22.

He says (p. 156, note 13) that box 39 chemise 2 contains folders on Freud’s early texts and Freud’s theory of sexuality. The first is an accurate description of box 39 chemise 1, the second of box 39 chemise 2.

He says (p. 166, note 3) that box 39 chemise 2 feuillet 3 is ‘Mouvement de population et régulation des naissances sous l’Ancien Régime’, which is actually in box 39 chemise 18.

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Thus, of the times I have been able to identify, his references to box 39 chemise 2 should be taken to refer to box 39 chemises 1, 2, 18, 22, 23, and 24.

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Some miscellaneous references:

He says (p. 156, note 12) that box 45 chemise 2 has notes on Schopenhauer and Naturphilosophie (Lorenz Oken). The latter are in box 36 chemise 26. The only relevant mention of Schopenhauer I have been able to find is in box 39 chemise 29.

He says (see p. 78, note 46) that the Lille course on signal, code, message, and information is in box 42b, chemise 2, but that’s online and there’s no sign of it. There are a series of notes on cybernetics in box 42b chemise 4.

He says (p. 321, note 48) that Foucault’s notes on the Kunz text ‘Idee, Wesen und Wirklichkeit des Menschen’ are in box 42b chemise 1, but they’re actually in chemise 2.

He says (p. 21, note 15) that box 45 chemise 2 has a dossier titled ‘Comte. La femme’, but this is incorrect; the phrase is, however, the title of box 39 chemise 19.

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When I carried out the same analysis on lectures 6 and 7 of the Vincennes course, the endnotes to which contain a lot of BnF citations, I found the following:

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Box 45:

p. 242, note 17; box 45 chemise 1 references Hippocrates, Generation. This is probably box 45 chemise 14

p. 248, note 38; box 45 chemise 1 references von Sachs. This is correct.

p. 249, note 44; box 45 chemises 1, 2, and 3 form a dossier on the sexuality of cryptogams. This includes at minimum box 45 chemises 16 and 17.

p. 251, note 50; box 45 chemise 1 references Leroy, Histoire de la notion de sex chez les plantes, which is actually chemise 5; chemise 2 has a dossier on Strasburger, which is actually chemise 10.

p. 279, note 29; box 45 chemise 4 analyses Diderot’s Supplement as a sexual utopia. This is in box 39 chemise 33

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Box 42a:

p. 272, note 10; box 42a chemise 1 has a dossier titled sodomy. This is in chemise 7.

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Box 39:

p. 273, note 15; box 39 chemise 4 has a dossier on sexuality and marriage in Icarie, drawing on Cabet. This is in chemise 28.

p. 274, note 16 says same chemise references Hine. This is in chemise 28.

pp. 274-275, note 18 says same chemise discusses Swift. This is in chemise 33.

p. 275, note 21 says same chemise has dossier on Fourier re sexuality. This is in chemise 29.

pp. 276-277, note 22 says same chemise discusses Romance of the Pyrenees and has a dossier on ‘Lieux’. The latter is chemise 35. The former is in the box, but dispersed through various chemises.

p. 277, note 23 says same chemise has dossier on sexual utopias. This is chemises 28 and 33, and possibly 32.

p. 280, note 34 says same chemise references Gabriel de Foigny. This is in chemise 33.

p. 288, note 59 says same chemise discusses Marcuse. This is in chemise 30.

p. 288, note 60 says same chemise has dossier on abbeys and convents in novels circa 1800. This is in chemise 39.

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The ones I have not found:

p. 241, note 15; box 45 chemise 1 contains a reference to Arthur-Konrad Ernsting, Historische und physikalische Beschreibung der Geschlechter der Pfanzen (1762), 35-37

pp. 244-245, note 25; box 45 chemise 1 references Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

p. 245, note 28; box 45 chemise 3 references Hippocrates, The Seed

p. 247, note 34; box 45 chemise 1 references Van Leeuwenhoek

p. 249, note 46; box 45 chemise 1 references The Normal Hermaphroditism of Plants

p. 252, note 51; box 45 chemise 1 references Weissmann, Nussbaum, or Houillon; chemise 3 references Delage