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Published in 1775, Dareau's Traité des injures proposes to codify the regulation of insults based on the articulation between authorities, hierarchies, and masculine honor. Starting with insults, he sketches out plural masculinities, whose general governance is based on the domus model. At the pinnacle of this masculine hierarchy are the "men of law", who encompass the professions associated with justice in the broadest sense. While he mobilizes several features inherited from the Renaissance magistrate, Dareau also bears witness to the influence of new gender norms of liberal and bourgeois inspiration. Starting with the entry on insults, the legal treatise thus helps to promote a new discourse on the virile ideal in the last third of the 18th century.