Comte Lionel de Chabrillan (1818-1858) First Consul for France at Melbourne (1852-1858)
Author: DIANNE REILLY Explorations No 20 (Jul 1996): 3-12 https://doi.org/10.62586/PPVE7341 Gabriel-Paul-Josselin-Lionel de Guigues de Moreton de Chabrillan began his diplomatic career in Copenhagen in 1838, lost his fortune gambling, spent some time in Australia as a miner and was then appointed ‘Honorary Consul, Second Class’ at Melbourne. Although Melbourne society ostracised his wife and former […]
Mme Juliette Henry Writes to Félix Faure
Author: WALLACE KIRSOP Explorations No 21 (Dec 1996): 3-14 https://doi.org/10.62586/MYCJ8238 The author examines Madame Henry’s fraught relationship with the then Consul-General of Australia, Biard d’Aunet, outlined in her letter of complaint to the President of the Republic, Felix Faure. These letters are printed here in full and with the rest of the dossier, now held […]
An Aristocratic Adventurer Extraordinaire: Count Alfred de La Chapelle
Author: PATRICIA CLANCY Explorations No 22 (Jun 1997): 5-22 https://doi.org/10.62586/JMFA6661 Count Alfred de La Chapelle was one of a number of sons of French titled families who sought to make their fortune on the Australian gold-fields. He stayed nine years and his book Trente ans à travers le monde (1888) is a colourful account of his adventures. […]
Transculturalism and Hybridity in the French-Australian Writer Paul Wenz
Author: M. BLACKMAN Explorations No 23 (Dec 1997): 3-11 https://doi.org/10.62586/CFMF5282 Maurice Blackman considers the transcultural position displayed by Wenz in ‘both the content and the écriture of his texts’. ‘His point of view is not that of a Frenchman specifically, but of someone who is simultaneously at home in the bush and yet “alien”’. He […]
Reciprocity — for John Rowland, In Memoriam, The Inaugural Kelver Hartley Fellowship Address by Dr Jean-Paul Delamotte AM
Author: JEAN-PAUL DELAMOTTE Explorations No 24 (Jun 1998): 18-37 https://doi.org/10.62586/FIKA3812 A summary of two speeches made by Jean-Paul Delamotte in Newcastle and Sydney in 1997 when he was the Inaugural Kelver Hartley Fellow. The speaker pays tribute to the ‘French-Australian Cultural Connection’ and the many examples of reciprocity Delamotte found when he lived in Australia […]
The Delamotte Phenomenon — Cultural Reciprocity
Author: C.B. THORNTON-SMITH Explorations No 24 (Jun 1998): 6-16 https://doi.org/10.62586/IRQL2993 The story of Monique and Jean-Paul Delamotte, who established the Association Culturelle Franco-Australienne (ACFA) and the related Atelier Littéraire Franco-Australien (ALFA), with its publishing house Éditions La Petite Maison. The author pays tribute to the invaluable work they have done in promoting Australian writing in France. Keywords: C.B. Thornton-Smith, […]
The Foundation and Early History of the Alliance française of Sydney
Author: IVAN BARKO Explorations No 26 (Jun 1999): 3-44 https://doi.org/10.62586/TRHC2754 This history of the beginnings of the Alliance française of Sydney occupies the whole of no 26 of Explorations. The creation of the Sydney Alliance took place in two stages: a borrowing library sponsored by the Alliance française of Paris was set up by Georges Biard d’Aunet, the Consul General, in 1896. […]
A Distant Thunder: Napoleon, Australia and the National Library
Author: EDWARD DUYKER Explorations No 27 (Dec 1999): 3-7 https://doi.org/10.62586/EKQJ4107 Edward Duyker relates the rise of Napoleon and its effects upon Australia; for example, the Peace of Amiens meant the French in Mauritius were given permission to explore trade with Australia and Nicolas Baudin was able to visit Port Jackson in safety. French attention to […]
Buvettes and Chiko Rolls: Australianness in Translated Children’s Fiction
Author: Helen Frank Explorations No 28 (Jun 2000): 24-36 https://doi.org/10.62586/XNER3356 Helen Frank suggests that the most common constructs of Australia in French translations reveal a preponderance of traditional Eurocentric signifiers that identify Australia with the outback, the antipodes, the exotic, the wild, the unknown, the void, the end of the world, the young and innocent […]
The Closing down of the Melbourne French Consulate General (1900 and 2000)
Author: IVAN BARKO Explorations No 28 (Jun 2000): 10-23 https://doi.org/10.62586/RXVC1474 Twice within a hundred years the French Government, in 1900 and in 2000, closed down its Melbourne Consulate General, and transferred its functions to the Sydney Consulate General. In the years and months leading to the proclamation of the new Commonwealth of Australia in January […]