Explorations – No 49 Part II Dec 2010
EDWARD DUYKER, An Explorer’s Books: The Library of Dumont d’Urville EDWARD DUYKER, Dumont d’Urville’s Library: The Notarial Inventories This is a major investigation of Dumont d’Urville’s library. The analytical study is followed by an exhaustive inventory of Dumont d’Urville’s books compiled by the author who is currently completing a biography of the explorer. Keywords: Dumont […]
Explorations – No 17 Dec 1994
(issued October 1997) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword C.B. THORNTON-SMITH, Paul Maistre, Vice-Consul and later Consul for France in Victoria, 1886-1898, 1901-1908 This article is a detailed account of Paul Maistre’s struggle to reform the Melbourne Alliance Française at the beginning of the twentieth century. Maistre, like Georges Biard d’Aunet, the Sydney-based Consul General for Australia was […]
Explorations – No 12 Jun 1992
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword C.W. NETTELBECK, Interview with J.G. Cornell, 17 October 1984 J.G.Cornell (b. 1904) is interviewed by Colin Nettelbeck and remembers Alliance Française personalities such as Louise Hansen Dyer, Marguerite Cockerton, Edouard Gay and many others, especially those who participated in theatrical productions. He speaks also of his memories of the teaching of French […]
Explorations No 7 – Dec 1988
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword FRANÇOIS FONTAINE, A Coopérant’s Experiences in Melbourne The 23-year old author, on a two-year (1977-79) work experience contract (in lieu of twelve months’ military service), was assigned to the Alliance Française in Melbourne as a teacher and a multi-skilled helper. The article is a highly personal and often humorous account of this […]
Explorations No 1 – May 1985
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword COLIN THORNTON-SMITH, A True Account in which only the Facts are Wrong – Hubert de Castella’s Les Squatters australiens (1861) A critical account of Hubert de Castella’s book on mid-nineteenth century Victoria and its history, written to correct the negative image of Melbourne presented in Céleste de Chabrillan’s Les Voleurs d’or and […]