French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution

Juliette Reboul is Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in material and immaterial transfers and connections in Enlightenment Europe. She currently works on two digital humanities projects examining the dissemination of books and ideas in Europe: the ERC-funded MEDIATE, and Western Sydney’s FBTEE.

“For any reader interested in the phenomenon of Emigration this book is a must, and it is a necessary addition to any French Revolution course bibliography or library holdings. … This book’s greatest contribution is to underscore just how different the situations of the many individual émigrés were in Britain, and how hard it is to make a study of them as a group without making gross generalizations on both sides of the politico-cultural Franco-British equation/divide.” (Kirsty Carpenter, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (34), 2018)“Reboul’s text is an essential reference for the Revolution history specialist focusing on French emigration to Britain. Such specialists will definitely wish to consult this text.” (Christopher Coski, French Review, Vol. 92 (3), March, 2019),

• ​1. Introduction.- 2. Émigrés, Refugees and Emigrants.- 3. Britain and Britons in Emigrant Retrospective Self-Narratives.- 4. Discursive Constructions of the Emigrant Figure in Loyalist Britain.-  5. British Charities and the Émigré Ideological Pursuit of Social Inequality.-  6. Marketing the Trauma of Displacement in Classified Adverts.- 7. Speaking, Reading and Publishing as a French Emigrant in a British Context.- 8. Settling preoccupations and investment of the host territory.- 9. The disenchantment of the emigrant world.- 10. Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.