The Influence of the Lecoq School on Australian Theatre
Author: LYNN EVERETT AND RUSSELL CHEEK The French Australian Review No 70 (Australian Winter 2021): 42-68: DOI Lecoq School devotees in Australia have created popular and visually rich theatre that has widened the scope of audience appeal to include and embrace new spectators, taking theatre to people who would not ordinarily attend mainstream theatre performances. […]
Virtue and Sentiment: Madame Mouchette’s Art and Teaching in Melbourne 1881–1892
Author: ANDREW MONTANA The French Australian Review No 70 (Australian Winter 2021): 20-41: DOI WINNER OF THE 2021 IVAN BARKO AWARD Australia in the early 1880s welcomed the professional artist and art teacher Berthe Mouchette from France, accompanied by her husband and her sister. Mouchette’s artistic and cultural influence was strong for well over a […]
Keynote Speech: ISFAR 2021 35th Anniversary Symposium, From the French East Indies Company to the French in the “Indo-Pacific”
Author: ROBERT ALDRICH The French Australian Review No 70 (Australian Winter 2021): 4-19: DOI 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 to attention with a statement by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in […]
The Légion d’Honneur in Australia
Author: WILLIAM A. LAND The French Australian Review No 71 (Australian Summer 2021-2022): 27–53. https://doi.org/10.62586/ATHX1225 The history of the Légion d’honneur in Australia dates back to the first award which was made to Sir William Macarthur in 1855. The Légion d’honneur is situated in the context of other French awards and its significance in terms […]
Australian Connections with the Franco-Prussian War 1870 and the Commune of Paris 1871
Author: PATRICIA CLARKE The French Australian Review No 71 (Australian Summer 2021-2022): 3–26. https://doi.org/10.62586/FKOZ4156 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 in her forced departure from the city as it was about to be besieged […]
French-Australian Relations: Une Entente Glaciale Revisited
Author: Kerry Mullan The French Australian Review No 72 (Australian Winter 2022): 115-141. https://doi.org/10.62586/NZWM6351 In light of last year’s deterioration in French-Australian relations, this article will examine the AUKUS exchanges between former Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Emmanuel Macron, with a particular focus on the underlying French and Australian English cultural values and assumptions […]
Convergence and Divergence on Gender Inclusive Language in France and Australia
Author: Chantal Crozet The French Australian Review No 72 (Australian Winter 2022): 86-114. https://doi.org/10.62586/CGNS8376 This article aims to reveal some rich points of ideological divergence and convergence of gender inclusive language (hereafter GIL) between France and Australia as found in scholarly literature and the written press. French and Australian societies are both being challenged by […]
‘Kangaroos’ and ‘Froggies’: Australian-French Relations and the Allied Invasion of Lebanon and Syria, 1941
Author: Nicole Townsend The French Australian Review No 72 (Australian Winter 2022): 61-85 https://doi.org/10.62586/GWED7901 This article focuses on Australia’s war with France during the Second World War, when Australian troops partook in the invasion of the Vichy French mandates of Lebanon and Syria in June 1941. It uses various sources, including oral history interviews, memoirs, […]
Beatrice Grimshaw: Traveller, Writer and Advocate for Australian Imperialism in the South Pacific
Author: Elizabeth Rechniewski The French Australian Review No 72 (Australian Winter 2022): 38-60 https://doi.org/10.62586/THAJ7972 The author argues that Beatrice Grimshaw was not only a traveller but a prolific writer, of novels, pamphlets and cruise brochures, newspaper and magazine articles that were highly influential in forming the contemporary public’s representations of the Pacific islands and their […]
An Australian Perspective on Occitan and Breton Ethnoregionalism in the Post-war Period to 1981
Author: EDOARDO BRUNETTI The French Australian Review 73 (Australian Summer 2022–2023): 90–115. https://doi.org/10.62586/CZCR5870 In France, the student occupations and strikes of May ’68 are well known, but the period was also of immense significance to the country’s ethnoregionalist movements, who sought to increase power and self-determination. From a period of rebuilding following the Second World […]