The French Australian Review – No 68 Australian Winter 2020
ELAINE LEWIS, JANE GILMOUR, Foreword IRENE ROGERS, ‘A Gift for France’: the Australian Bluebird nurses of the Great War WINNER OF THE 2020 IVAN BARKO AWARD In July 1916, a group of twenty one Australian trained nurses known as the Bluebirds left Australia for the Western Front. They were under contract with The New South Wales […]
Explorations – No 45 Dec 2008
IVAN BARKO, Foreword ADRIAN MITCHELL, ‘A Bit of a Froggie’: George Collingridge de Tourcey in a Different Light This is a study of George Collingridge, a Sydney author and artist of English birth and French upbringing, and his role in the cultural life of Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century and 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 20 Jul 1996
(issued December 1999) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword DIANNE REILLY, Comte Lionel de Chabrillan (1818-1858) First Consul for France at Melbourne (1852-1858) Gabriel-Paul-Josselin-Lionel de Guigues de Moreton de Chabrillan began his diplomatic career in Copenhagen in 1838, lost his fortune gambling, spent some time in Australia as a miner and was then appointed ‘Honorary Consul, Second Class’ […]