The French Australian Review – No 66 Australian Winter 2019

JANE GILMOUR, Foreword MICHAEL TYQUIN, Revisiting the French Campaign in the Dardanelles, 1915 The article begins with a brief discussion of the commemoration and memory of Gallipoli in France, before proceeding to the reasons behind sending a French force there in 1915. Then follows an analysis of this campaign with a focus of the Corps […]

The French Australian Review – No 65 Australian Summer 2018-2019

ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI, Voyage of the Pilgrims WINNER OF THE 2018 IVAN BARKO AWARD In June 1902, a small group of prospective settlers set out from Sydney for the New Hebrides. They were accompanied by A. B. Paterson–‘Banjo’ Paterson–who had been hired by the Sydney Morning Herald to report on their progress and […]

The French Australian Review – No 64 Australian Winter 2018

JANE GILMOUR, Foreword BARRY McGOWAN, Convicts and Communards: French-Australian Relations in the South Pacific, 1800–1900 An examination of the impact on French-Australian relations of the decision by the French government to establish a penal colony in New Caledonia. The article documents Australian reactions to the colony drawing on press reports and official documents. The transportation […]

The French Australian Review – No 63 Australian Summer 2017-2018

ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword THIERRY VINCENT, An Exploration of the Fate of the Australian and Tasmanian Ethnographic Collections brought back by the Baudin Expedition, following the 1804 French Scientific Voyage to Australia [Australian and Tasmanian objects deposited at the Château de Malmaison] Explorer Nicolas Baudin was entrusted with assembling a collection of plants and animals for […]

The French Australian Review – No 62 Australian Winter 2017

JANE GILMOUR, Foreword JEAN FORNASIERO AND JOHN WEST-SOOBY, The French Revolution and the Politics of Sea Voyaging This article provides details on an international research project, bringing together eight researchers from three continents, into State-sponsored French voyages in the Revolutionary era. It seeks to set these voyages within their intellectual and political contexts. The article […]

The French Australian Review – No 61 Australian Summer 2016-2017

ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword JILL DONOHOO, NSW Premier William Holman and the ‘inexhaustible interest of French literature and affairs’ WINNER OF THE 2017 IVAN BARKO AWARD This is an exploration of the public and private aspects of William Holman’s francophilia and its significance in his life. Holman was premier of New South Wales between 1913 and […]

The French Australian Review – No 60 Australian Winter 2016

IVAN BARKO, Foreword MARILYNE BRUN, MARILYNE BRUN, Towards a History of Australian Studies in France This is a comprehensive review of the history and present state of Australian studies in French universities. Keywords: Australian studies, staffing structures and administrative procedures of French universities, Australianists, colonial studies, Commonwealth studies, financial support THIERRY VINCENT, A Forgotten Collector […]

The French Australian Review – No 59 Australian Summer 2015

(SPECIAL WORLD WAR I ISSUE) STUART MACINTYRE, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, Introduction LEAH RICHES, ‘De l’ombre à la lumière’ – Remembering Fromelles through a Century of Private Grief and Public Politics This article examines the way the memory of the battle of Fromelles has been sustained in private and public spheres. It identifies three distinct phases […]

The French Australian Review – No 58 Australian Winter 2015

IVAN BARKO, Foreword JILL DONOHOO, ‘Terre vraiment étrange’ – French Travel Writers on Australian Cities between the Gold Rush and Federation The author explores the reactions to Australian cities of several French visitors between 1851 and 1901, who, on their return to France, published books on their experiences in Australia. Keywords: travel writers, concept of […]

The French Australian Review – No 57 Australian Summer 2014–2015

IVAN BARKO, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, French-Australian Relations – Towards an Historical Perspective The author argues the need for the construction of a full-scale historical overview of French-Australian relations. In analysing a broad range of the achievements of French-Australian studies as a field of scholarship, it sketches out some of the areas where work still needs […]