The French Australian Review – No 74 Australian Winter 2023

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print) Purchase the whole issue in PDF format AUD $11 inc GST where applicable You can purchase single peer-reviewed articles below   JANE GILMOUR & ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword   OPINION PIECE ERIC BERTI, The Vagaries of French-Australian Relations Seen Through French Eyes Eric Berti was Consul-General of France in Sydney […]

The French Australian Review – No 73 Australian Summer 2022-2023

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print)     JANE GILMOUR & ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword Vale Colin Nettelbeck Colin Nettelbeck was a co-founder of ISFAR and its journal Explorations (now The French Australian Review). He served in various roles (including president) in ISFAR from 1985 to 2000 and returned as president from 2011 to 2018. A […]

The French Australian Review – No 72 Australian Winter 2022

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print) Foreword   KERRY MULLAN, Preface   IVAN BARKO, Tribute to Colin Nettelbeck   ALEXIS BERGANTZ AND ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI, ISFAR@35: Australia and France in a Regional Global Context: Past Engagements and Future Research Directions The authors review the work of ISFAR, The French Australian Review and The ISFAR Research Committee […]

The French Australian Review – No 71 Australian Summer 2021-2022

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print) JANE GILMOUR & ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword   PATRICIA CLARKE, Australian Connections with the Franco-Prussian War 1870 and the Commune of Paris 1871 WINNER OF THE 2022 IVAN BARKO AWARD In 1870 the Sydney Morning Herald published reports of the fast-moving Franco-Prussian war from its Paris correspondent Anna Blackwell culminating […]

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 […]

Explorations – No 54 Australian Winter 2013

IVAN BARKO, Foreword DOUGLAS WILKIE, Marie Callegari in Australia: the Identity of Alexandre Dumas’s Narrator in Le Journal de Madame Giovanni This article presents the case for identifying Alexandre Dumas’s narrator in Le Journal de Madame Giovanni as Louisa La Grange, who was transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1843. It traces the life story […]

Explorations – No 43 Dec 2007

IVAN BARKO, Foreword ALBERT SALON, A French Diplomat’s Reflections on Australia and the Pacific With an introduction by Ivan Barko, which provides biographical information about Albert Salon, who was Cultural and Scientific Counsellor at the French Embassy in Canberra from 1969-1975. this article presents a chapter from Albert Salon’s book, Colas colo, Colas colère, both […]