A collection of fourteen conference papers, this book explores French Emigration as both a cultural and a political phenomenon. The émigrés were political refugees, caught between the domestic turmoil of France and the international rivalries of the European powers.Chapters include:From Coblenz to Hartwell: the Emigre Government and the European Powers, 1791-1814A European Destiny: the Armee de Conde, 1792-1801London: Capital of the EmigrationFrench Emigres in HungaryPortugal and the EmigresFrench Emigres in PrussiaFrench Emigres in EdinburghLe milliard des emigres: the Impact of the Indemnity Bill of 1825 on French SocietyFrench Emigres in the United StatesThe Emigre NovelDanloux in England (1792-1802): an Emigre ArtistThe Image of the Republic in the Press of the London Emigres, 1792-1802Burke, Boisgelin and the Politics of the Emigre Bishops’Fearless resting place’: the Exiled French Clergy in Great Britain, 1789-1815The French Emigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789-1814
A question of emigration
Author(s) : CARPENTER Kirsty
- Year of publication :
- 1999
- Place and publisher :
- New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc. ISBN: 0312223811
- Number of pages :
- 256p.