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French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

By (author) Juliette Reboul

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This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands ofÂ French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and ImperialÂ France. This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial presence in BritainÂ uncovers a wealth of underused and alternative sources on this controversial populationÂ displacement. These include open letters and classified advertisements published in BritishÂ newspapers, insurance contracts, as well as lists of addresses and passports drawn up by localÂ authorities. These sources question the construction by British loyalists and French Ã©migrÃ© elitesÂ of a stereotyped emigrant figure and their use of the trauma of forced displacement to advanceÂ ideological agendas. In fact, public and private discourses on governmental systems, foreigners,Â political and religious dissent, and the economic survival of French emigrants, demonstrate theÂ heterogeneity of the responses to emigration in Britain. Ultimately, this book narrates a storyÂ in which the emigrant community and its host have been often unnoticeably yet fundamentallyÂ transformed by their encounter, in both practical and ideological domains. Â Â

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