The great return : reintegrating émigrés in revolutionary France, 1789-1802
Abstract/Contents
- 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.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| 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 |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kelly Elizabeth Summers. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 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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