Explorations – No 46 Jun 2009

JANA VERHOEVEN, Foreword PATRICIA CLANCY, Céleste de Chabrillan’s One-Act Comedy, En Australie This article introduces the translation by Dennis Davison of Céleste de Chabrillan’s play about Melbourne in 1853, En Australie, originally performed and published in Paris in 1862. It recounts the life of Céleste, a former courtesan and wife of the first French Consul […]

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, […]