A history of the French in London: liberty, equality, opportunity (2025)

Reviews: Peter R. Campbell, ed., The Origins of the French Revolution., Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke and New York, 2005; 384 pp.; 0333949706, £60 (hbk), 0333949714, £19.99 (pbk

H-France Review, 2006

The British left intelligentsia and France : perceptions and interactions, 1930-1944

Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013

This thesis is concerned with the ways in which the non-communist British left interacted with their French counterparts during the 1930s and the Second World War and described France in their writings and broadcasts. It challenges existing accounts that have described British attitudes to France as characterised by suspicion, ill-feeling or even contempt. It draws on a range of sources, including reportage, private papers, records of left-wing societies and other publications from the period, as well as relevant articles and books. The thesis explores the attitudes of British left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists and politicians and investigates their attempts to find common ground and formulate shared aspirations. The thesis takes a broadly chronological approach, looking first at the pre-1939 period, then at three phases of war and finally at British accounts of the Liberation of France. In the 1930s, British left-wing commentators sought to explain events in France and to work with French socialists and trade unionists in international forums in their search for an appropriate response to both fascism and Soviet communism. Following the defeat of France, networks that included figures from the British left and French socialists living in London in exile developed. In addition to print media, broadcasting provided a space in which the left intelligentsia could promote a version of current events that emphasized solidarity between a determined Britain and defiant French resistance, united in a common endeavour. Contributors showed continued interests in French affairs, discussing issues such as communism, social and economic reform, colonialism, the future of Europe and how France might best be governed. The analysis of the primary sources presented in this thesis provides a counter narrative to a more orthodox position which has emphasised enmity and hostility between the Britain and France during this period and makes a contribution to a more complete understanding of cross Channel relations before and during the Second World War.

French Studies in and for the 21st Century

2011

French Studies in and for the 21st Century draws together a range of key scholars to examine the current state of French Studies in the UK, taking account of the variety of factors which have made the discipline what it is. The book looks ahead to the place of French Studies in a world that is increasingly interdisciplinary, and where student demands, new technologies and transnational education are changing the ways in which we learn, teach, research and assess. Required reading for all UK French Studies scholars, the book will also be an essential text for the French Studies community worldwide as it grapples with current demands and plans for the future.

Society for French Historical Studies

International Labor and Working-Class History, 1996

Women's History as French History

Journal of Women's History, 1996

Introduction to (and editor of) roundtable on Patrick Boucheron (ed.), France in the World: A New Global History

H-Diplo, 2020

A 'tourist' or a 'refugee'? The Huguenot Anne-Marguerite du Noyer and her trip to London

Mapping Multifaith London, 2023

This historical blog post for the Mapping Multifaith London project explores the Huguenot Anne-Marguerite du Noyer’s 1686 journey to London, interrogating her dual identity as both a refugee and a 'tourist.' In her Mémoires (1710-1), du Noyer offers a striking juxtaposition between the classic refugee escape narrative and the more playful, intellectual tone of the 'ars apodemica.' This brief piece examines the sensory pleasures encountered by early modern Huguenots who fled their homeland, highlighting how these moments contrast with a modern essentialist tendency to foreground refugees' suffering.

French Studies: The Post-Romantic Era

The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016

and has the following chapters relevant to our period: Alice de Georges-Métral 'Trois dandys en quête d'auteur' (45-58), on the problems of offering a definition of dandyism where the figures of George Brummell, Barbey d'Aurevilly and le Chevalier Des Touches are concerned; Sylvie Ballestra-Puech, 'Le dandy "produit d'extrême civilisation" dans Monsieur de Phocas de Jean Lorrain' (59-71) on the implications of the dandy's (sickly) association with the library and the art gallery. Frédéric Plessis: poète et romancier, ed. Yann Mortelette, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 204 pp., includes the following chapters on the writer: Maëlle Venneuguès, 'Le fonds Frédéric Plessis de la bibliothèque municipale de Brest' (27-36); Edgard Pich, 'Quelques considérations sur Frédéric Plessis et la métrique' (37-50); Marie-France De Palacio, '"Ces petits poèmes où brille quelque beauté d'art ou d'émotion": l'épitaphe latine chez Frédéric Plessis' (51-68); Yann Mortelette, 'Frédéric Plessis et le Parnasse' (69-82); Michael Pakenham 'Le deuxième Parnasse contemporain vu par Frédéric Plessis et Arthur Rimbaud' (83-90); Jean-Luc Steinmetz, 'Mallarmé-Frédéric Plessis : une rencontre sans lendemain' (91-99); Jean-Louis Meunier, 'Morale, mère et société dans Angèle de Blindes' (103-12); Alain-Gabriel Monot, 'La représentation de la femme dans Le Mariage de Léonie' (113-18); Marie Flament, 'La vie rêvée de Caroline Gévrot' (119-26); Jean Balcou, 'Frédéric Plessis, entre Anatole France et Jean Psichari' (127-36); Jean-Pierre Dupouy, 'Le culte de "la Règle" : quelques professions de foi de Frédéric Plessis glanées dans ses lettres à Auguste Dupouy' (137-45). Le Magasin du XIXe siècle, 3, 2013, entitled 'Quand la ville dort…' includes the following articles on the cultural interest in the nocturnal city during our period: Jean-Didier Wagneur, 'Les nuits d'Antoine Fauchery' (49-53); Matthieu Letourneux, '"La nuit est donc à peu près supprimée": l'imaginaire nocturne dans les anticipations de Robida' (54-58); Carole Sandrin, 'Les débuts de la photographie urbaine de nuit' (59-66); Jean-Louis Cabanès, '"La reine des eaux-fortes"' (67-80); Dominique Kalifa, '1906 : le Panthéon médiatique du XIXe siècle' (290-99). Le Magasin du XIXe siècle, 4, 2014, entitled 'Sexorama' includes the following articles on sexualities in our period: Anne-Marie Sohn, 'La libération sexuelle avant "la libération sexuelle": le tournant fin-desiècle' (37-45); Fabienne Casta-Rosaz, 'Un contre-modèle de la sexualité conjugale: le flirt' (46-54); Magali Le Mens, '"Des clitoris parents de nos verges". Hermaphrodite/androgyne au XIXe siècle' (55-61); Caroline De Mulder, 'Un "lys" dans le bourbier: les premières apparitions de l'infirmière laïque dans le roman' (62-68); Alexandre Wenger, 'Le Mal de Vénus: les médecins face à la syphilis' (69-75); Jean-Didier Wagneur, 'Filles de lettres et hommes de brasseries. Moeurs gambrinales' (76-82); Laurent Bihl, 'Dépoitraillée pour rire ou pour pleurer? La prostituée dans la presse satirique fin-de-siècle' (83-93); Michel Pierssens, 'Sur la balançoire' (94-98); Élisabeth Pillet, '"Quand j'entends des chansons / Ça m'rend tout polisson"' (99-108); Jean-Yves Mollier, 'Éditer la littérature érotique à Paris' (109-16); Raymond-Josué Seckel, 'Vu de l'Enfer: L'Enfer et ses gardiens au XIXe siècle et après' (117-26); Éric Walbecq, 'Maurice Feuillet, un collectionneur au poil' (127-30); José-Luis Diaz, Jean-Didier Wagneur et Nicolas Wanlin, 'Florilège érotique' (131-52). The main section of Romantisme, 164, entitled 'Savoirs de jeunes filles' includes the following articles relative to our period: Virginie A. Duzer, 'Le fruit défendu' (3-12) which affirms the complexities of ascertaining the knowledge base peculiar to the category of the jeune fille since this figure exists primarily in the sphere of fiction; Lise Schreier, 'De l'art de civiliser les filles: idéologie domestique et politique coloniale dans le roman édifiant des débuts de la Troisième République' (13-20) on two examples of literature for girls by Marie Maréchal and Roger Dombre which present a surprising if somewhat hesitant force of female politicization, albeit one which serves the interests of colonial ideology; Alexandre Delattre, 'La pureté impossible. Le monde catholique face au roman honnête' (21-30) on the problematic idealism of the Catholic novel for girls in the work of Céline Fallet, Octave Feuillet and Zénaïde Fleurot; Sophie Pelletier, 'De la jeune fille à la jeune femme, un passage impossible? L'exemple de Chérie' (31-42) on the spatial figuration of the tension between the desires of the heroine of Edmond de Goncourt's novel and the social obstacles to their realisation; Érika Wicky, 'Ce que sentent les jeunes filles' (43-54) which explores literary and iconographic treatments of perfume; Andrea Oberhuber, 'Cervelines ou Princesses de science? Les entraves du savoir des jeunes héroïnes dans le roman de la Belle Époque' (55-64) on the obstacles posed by marriage to intellectual self-assertion among the female protagonists of Colette Yver's 1903 novel. Patrick M. Bray, 'Prose Constructions: Nerval, Baudelaire, and the Louvre', EsC, 54: 115-16, links N.'s Bohême galante and Petits châteaux de Bohême and B.'s Spleen de Paris to the reconfiguration of the space of the Louvre during the Second Empire, contending that these prose texts signal a poetic desire to intervene in the project's redefinition of social space. Julian Brigstocke, The Life of the City: Space, Humour, and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre, Farnham, Ashgate, 230 pp., presents a spatial history of the famous neighbourhood, casting the work of Baudelaire and Manet alongside examples of popular culture as part of a broader societal conflict with authority. Damian Catani, Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, London, Bloomsbury, 2013, 222 pp., advocates a comparative historical study of man-made atrocity; profitable sections are devoted to Baudelaire's attempts to modernize literary representations of evil (ch. 2), Lautréamont's complex relation to Darwinism and the Divine, and Zola's fascination with atavism (ch. 3). Patrizia D'Andrea, Le Spiritisme dans la littérature de 1865 à 1913: perspectives européennes sur un imaginaire fin-de-siècle, Paris, Honoré Champion, 618 pp., surveys a broad corpus, situating it within contemporary contexts of esotericism, philosophy and psychiatry; featured authors include

Natalie Zemon Davis, “Commentary,” French Historical Studies 29:3 (Summer 2006): 509-511

French Studies: The Seventeenth Century

The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2016

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