A Dangerously Red War-Atah: Rethinking the Work of Lucien Henry, French Communard, Australian Artist
Author: ANGELA GIOVANANGELI The French Australian Review No 79 (Australian Summer 2025–2026): 92–121. https://doi.org/10.62586/IYFP1395 Lucien Henry was a French revolutionary and artist who served time as a political prisoner on a penal colony in New Caledonia for the role he played during the Paris Commune. Once pardoned by the French State, Henry settled in Australia […]
Writing First Nations Narratives for a French Audience: a Literary Analysis of Two French Young Adult Novels
Author: FRANÇOISE GRAUBY The French Australian Review No 79 (Australian Summer 2025–2026): 73-91. https://doi.org/10.62586/KTLR5975 This article examines two recent French novels (Stolen by Pascale Perrier (2018) and Red Man by Jean-François Chabas (2021)) intended for Young Adults (romans-jeunesse) and featuring First Nations Australian characters. Within a context of current cultural debates about the danger of […]
Letters from the Left Bank: Grace Crowley’s Influence on Australian Modernism
Author: ALEC BOLWELL The French Australian Review No 79 (Australian Summer 2025–2026): 47-72. https://doi.org/10.62586/ECZU1144 Grace Crowley (1890–1979) was a pivotal figure in Australian modernist art, particularly in abstraction, which was shaped by her time in France (1926– 1929). During this period, she studied cubist techniques at institutions such as Académie Lhote and actively engaged with […]
Crossing Empires, Colonies and Cultures: Exchange, Connections and Continuing Creolisation among Migrants from Reunion via New Caledonia to New South Wales
Author: KARIN SPEEDY The French Australian Review No 79 (Australian Summer 2025–2026): 14-46. https://doi.org/10.62586/CTZC4866 THIS ARTICLE WAS FREE FOR ONE MONTH This article explores the stories of a small number of Reunionese and Indian families who settled in New South Wales, having previously migrated from Reunion to New Caledonia. Their migration to Australia was effected […]
French Perceptions of the Colony of Victoria – Facts, Fiction and Euphoria
Author: COLIN THORNTON-SMITH Explorations No 2 (Dec 1985): 14-25 https://doi.org/10.62586/NTVH2916 The author has identified over thirty French books on Australia, mostly published in the second half of the nineteenth century. He discusses the difficulty of establishing the genre to which each book belongs, as the borderlines between personal reminiscences or memoirs, fictionalised autobiography and pure […]
The idea of France in Victoria
Author: JIM DAVIDSON Explorations No 2 (Dec 1985): 3-9 https://doi.org/10.62586/CNWF2695 In this wide-ranging essay, the author surveys not only Melbourne society’s enthusiasm for things French but also the occasional emergence of anti-French feelings generated by the survival of traditional British hostility to France as well as the existence of tensions between the Australian colonies and […]
The French Disconnection
Author: MILES LEWIS Explorations No 3 (July 1986): 21-45 https://doi.org/10.62586/TODX3119 In this detailed study of French influences in pre-World War 1 Australian architecture, the author distinguishes between stylistic features of French origin and building techniques and materials originating in France. Examples of both are given. Keywords: pise de terre, Marseilles tiles, reinforced concrete, mansard roof, […]
Out of Oblivion
Author: JOHN WHITE Explorations No 6 (Sep 1988): 9-20 https://doi.org/10.62586/DJWW6982 A personal account of a family history project, presenting the actual history of the author’s French ancestors as well as the author’s process of investigation and his understanding of the people in the story. The main characters are his maternal grandfather, Gaston L’Huillier, and his […]
The Victorian Customs Department and Respectable Limits of Taste: Émile Zola and Colonial Censorship
Author: BRIAN HUBBER Explorations No 9 (Dec 1990): 3-16 https://doi.org/10.62586/HTOH8480 The author details the steps taken by Alfred Deakin when Chief Secretary of Victoria in the late 1880s to have some of Zola’s works prohibited and vendors guilty of selling them prosecuted. When legal opinion was obtained, it became obvious that the novel selected as […]
Two Adaptations of S.T. Gill by Gustave Doré
Author: C.B. THORNTON-SMITH Explorations No 10 (Jun 1991): 1-8 https://doi.org/10.62586/UFQY9652 This article examines the adaptation by Gustave Doré of two of S.T. Gill’s drawings, for publication in the French magazine Le Tour du monde. These drawings were meant to illustrate a pseudo-travelogue (“De Sydney à Adélaïde”) which the author argues was not, as claimed by the […]