The French Australian Review – No 69 Australian Summer 2020-2021
JANE GILMOUR, ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword CAROLINE WINTER, Com-Memoration of the Great War: Tourists and remembrance on the Western Front Social memory changes in response to the characteristics and needs of each generation, thus it can often present a somewhat more favourable perspective on past events, compared with historical reality. In the lead up to the […]
Explorations – No 40 Jun 2006
(issued June 2008) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, What is This Thing Called France? In his valedictory lecture delivered on his retirement in 2005 from the A.R. Chisholm Chair of French at the University of Melbourne, Colin Nettelbeck reflects on various aspects of French culture, history and geography and how they have determined France’s destiny […]
Explorations – No 15 Dec 1993
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword ROGER LONDON, French Australia Relations in the Cold War The author was French Consul in Melbourne These are reminiscences of his experiences in Melbourne during the French nuclear tests in the Pacific in the early nineteen-seventies, framed by references to the exploration of the Australian continent by Saint-Allouarn, Marion Dufresne, Lapérouse, d’Entrecasteaux, […]