Overview
- Focuses on the interaction between French migrants and their British hosts following the French Revolution
- Utilises a range of both traditional and innovative sources to recreate French and British encounters
- Examines the situations, individuals and locations that were fundamental to emigrant-British cultural transfers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France. This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial presence in Britain uncovers a wealth of underused and alternative sources on this controversial population displacement. These include open letters and classified advertisements published in British newspapers, insurance contracts, as well as lists of addresses and passports drawn up by local authorities. These sources question the construction by British loyalists and French émigré elites of a stereotyped emigrant figure and their use of the trauma of forced displacement to advance ideological agendas. In fact, public and private discourses on governmental systems, foreigners, political and religious dissent, and the economic survival of French emigrants, demonstrate the heterogeneity of the responses to emigration in Britain. Ultimately, this book narrates a story in which the emigrant community and its host have been often unnoticeably yet fundamentally transformed by their encounter, in both practical and ideological domains.
Reviews
“Reboul’s text is an essential reference for the Revolution history specialist focusing on French emigration to Britain. Such specialists will definitely wish to consult this text.” (Christopher Coski, French Review, Vol. 92 (3), March, 2019),
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution
Authors: Juliette Reboul
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57996-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57995-5Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86299-6Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57996-2Published: 25 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of France, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Military, Social History, Cultural History