The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré are detangled in this edited collection, thus bringing to light unexpected processes of tensions and compromises between the exiles and their host societies. The refugee/host contact points also fostered a series of cultural transfers. This book argues that the French emigration ought to be seen within the broader context of an ‘Age of Exile’, a notion that better encompasses the dynamics of migration that forced many to re-imagine their relation to a nation and define their displaced identities. Revisiting the historiography of the last twenty years from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume challenges pre-existing beliefs on the journeys and re-settlements – in Europe and beyond – of the French émigré community.
Author(s): Philip Laure, J. Reboul
Series: War, Culture And Society, 1750 –1850
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 340
Tags: History Of France, French Emigrants, Europe
Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Introduction (Laure Philip, Juliette Reboul)....Pages 1-26
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
The Impossible Émigré: Moving People and Moving Borders in the Annexed Territories of Revolutionary France (Mary Ashburn Miller)....Pages 29-44
Interaction and Interrelation in Exile: French Émigrés, Legislation, and Everyday Life in the Habsburg Monarchy (Matthias Winkler)....Pages 45-65
The Jersey Émigrés: Community Coherence Amidst Diaspora (Sydney Watts)....Pages 67-87
Front Matter ....Pages 89-89
Émigré Children and the French School at Penn (Buckinghamshire): 1796–1814 (Kirsty Carpenter)....Pages 91-109
Counter-Revolutionary Transfers? Émigré Literature and the Subject of the French Emigration in British Private Libraries (1790s–1830) (Juliette Reboul)....Pages 111-134
The Trauma of the Emigration in the Novels of Three Women Émigrées in London (Laure Philip)....Pages 135-154
Playing the Nation? The Clash of French and German Theatrical Troupes in Hamburg and Mannheim (Clare Siviter)....Pages 155-177
Front Matter ....Pages 179-179
Émigrés and Transimperial Politics: Pierre Victor Malouet and the Fate of Saint Domingue (Patrick Harris)....Pages 181-203
The Age of Emigrations: French Émigrés and Global Entanglements of Political Exile (Friedemann Pestel)....Pages 205-231
Front Matter ....Pages 233-233
Healing the Republic’s ‘Great Wound’: Emigration Reform and the Path to a General Amnesty, 1799–1802 (Kelly Summers)....Pages 235-255
The Last Ditch: The French Émigré Clergy in Britain and the Concordat of 1801 (Dominic Aidan Bellenger)....Pages 257-275
The Return of the Emigrés: Bordeaux, 12 March 1814 (Philip Mansel)....Pages 277-296
Postface: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Emigré Studies (Simon Burrows)....Pages 297-319
Back Matter ....Pages 321-337
