The great return : reintegrating émigrés in revolutionary France, 1789-1802

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Abstract
Roughly 150000 émigrés from across the social spectrum fled their homeland over the course of the French Revolution. Although republican law continued to equate absence with treason, most émigrés returned to France within a decade of Robespierre's fall—a remarkable feat of reintegration that was neither straightforward nor inevitable. This dissertation examines the divisive and often unconstitutional means by which the fragile First Republic attempted to police its membership. Causes célèbres such as the drawn-out saga of the "accidental outlaws" shipwrecked at Calais fueled public frustration with a system that struggled to differentiate between counter-revolutionary threats and bona fide refugees, especially women and children. Legislative, judicial and personal documents illuminate the political and practical challenges raised by France's forgotten great return.

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Type of resource text
Form electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent 1 online resource.
Publication date 2015
Issuance monographic
Language English

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Associated with Summers, Kelly Elizabeth
Associated with Stanford University, Department of History.
Primary advisor Baker, Keith
Thesis advisor Baker, Keith
Thesis advisor Edelstein, Dan
Thesis advisor Lougee, Carolyn Chappell
Advisor Edelstein, Dan
Advisor Lougee, Carolyn Chappell

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Statement of responsibility Kelly Elizabeth Summers.
Note Submitted to the Department of History.
Thesis Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015.
Location electronic resource

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© 2015 by Kelly Elizabeth Summers
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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