French Emigrants In Revolutionised Europe: Connected Histories And Memories

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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. 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