French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

Juliette Reboul

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English

Springer International Publishing AG
07 September 2017

European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; French Revolution; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

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.

By: Juliette Reboul
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 4.854kg
ISBN: 9783319579955
ISBN 10: 3319579959
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 07 September 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Juliette Reboul is Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in material and immaterial transfers and connections in Enlightenment Europe. She currently works on two digital humanities projects examining the dissemination of books and ideas in Europe: the ERC-funded MEDIATE, and Western Sydney’s FBTEE.

Reviews for French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

For any reader interested in the phenomenon of Emigration this book is a must, and it is a necessary addition to any French Revolution course bibliography or library holdings. ... This book's greatest contribution is to underscore just how different the situations of the many individual emigres were in Britain, and how hard it is to make a study of them as a group without making gross generalizations on both sides of the politico-cultural Franco-British equation/divide. (Kirsty Carpenter, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (34), 2018)