Jean Rosemberg

Resources – Jean Rosemberg’s book

Studies in the French Presence in Australia

Jean Rosemberg, French-born Melbourne bookseller and publisher, who migrated to Australia with his wife Catherine in 1952, launched his publishing house, River Seine Publications (thus named after a winner [sic] of the Melbourne Cup), in 1971. River Seine Publications specialised in teaching materials for students of French, some imported and some produced for the special needs of Australian learners.

Jean Rosemberg retired from River Seine in 1983, at a time when he had been deeply involved in research on the French in Australia for some time. His work, supervised by Wallace Kirsop, led to the submission of a Master’s thesis at Monash University in 1985 under the title ‘Studies in the French Presence in Australia’. He subsequently wrote a larger and more comprehensive study of the French in Australia and it is the typescript of this (regrettably unpublished) work which is now made available on ISFAR’s Resources website. Jean Rosemberg died in 1987. Thus we are at last fulfilling Wallace Kirsop’s 1987 promise: ‘A way will be found to bring our readers and Jean Rosemberg’s fellow explorers some of the fruits of his more specialized research’ (Explorations, no 5, July 1987, p.2).

Rosemberg Introduction (2Mb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 1 and 2 (1Mb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 3 and 4 (488Kb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 5 and 6 (614Kb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 7 and 8 (1Mb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 9 and 10 (945Kb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 11 and 12 (1Mb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg
Rosemberg Chapters 13 and 14 (2Mb PDF) by Jean Rosemberg

Eds. It seems that the horse River Seine was fancied to win the 1965 Melbourne Cup but fell.