The French Australian Review – No 70 Australian Winter 2021
ELAINE LEWIS, JANE GILMOUR, Foreword ROBERT ALDRICH, Keynote Speech: ISFAR 2021 35th Anniversary Symposium, From the French East Indies Company to the French in the “Indo-Pacific” Robert Aldrich gives a concise overview of four centuries of the French presence in the Indo-Pacific region. The political and commercial idea of an ‘Indo-Pacific’, it seems, came […]
Explorations – No 47 Dec 2009
JANA VERHOEVEN, Foreword FABRICE DAUCHEZ & JACQUELINE DUTTON, Ambiguous Australian Stereotypes in French Literature: The Case of Nullarbor by David Fauquemberg The authors investigate the use and significance of stereotypes in David Fauquemberg’s Nullarbor. Dauchez and Dutton situate this recently published book in the tradition of French travel writing about the antipodes and examine how […]
Explorations No 10 – Jun 1991
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword C.B. THORNTON-SMITH, Two Adaptations of S.T. Gill by Gustave Doré This article examines the adaptation by Gustave Doré of two of S.T. Gill’s drawings, for publication in the French magazine Le Tour du monde. These drawings were meant to illustrate a pseudo-travelogue (“De Sydney à Adélaïde”) which the author argues was not, […]
Explorations No 3 – Jul 1986
WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword ROBERT TRUMBLE, Vincent d’Indy – musicien français – an account of a significant French/Australian link This article sketches the career of composer Vincent d’Indy, a pupil of César Franck, and his undeserved eclipse since his death in 1931. The Australian connection was first established by Bernard Heinze, later Sir Bernard, when, at […]