Somewhere in France: Language, Place and Remembrance in Australian Soldiers’ Periodical Culture
Author: VERONIQUE DUCHÉ AND AMANDA LAUGESEN The French Australian Review 73 (Australian Summer 2022–2023): 62–89. https://doi.org/10.62586/NEQV5651 An exploration of the thesis that while for contemporary Australians Villers-Bretonneux is the main ‘lieu de commémoration’ (place of remembrance), for the First World War diggers, ‘lieux de mémoire’ (sites of memory) were created from a much wider and […]
Henri Kowalski (1841–1916) in the Antipodes and His Comic Opera Queen Venus
Author: KERRY MURPHY The French Australian Review 73 (Australian Summer 2022–2023): 42–61. https://doi.org/10.62586/XZHH3780 French virtuoso pianist and composer Henri Kowalski visited Australia in 1880 and then returned in 1885 when he settled in Sydney for twelve years. In 1881 he wrote a comic opera, Queen Venus. with a libretto by Marcus Clarke. This paper traces […]
Australians’ Love-Hate Relationship with the French in the Last Two Centuries
Author: IVAN BARKO The French Australian Review 73 (Australian Summer 2022–2023): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.62586/YBAI9067 An exploration, drawing on newspaper articles as well as other material, of the contradictory dispositions that have prevailed in Australian attitudes towards the French over the past two hundred years. The author explores the concept of what he calls the ‘Archibald syndrome’—dreaming […]
AUKUS and its Aftermath
Author: DAVID CAMROUX The French Australian Review 73 (Australian Summer 2022–2023): 5-20. https://doi.org/10.62586/JJJZ3584 In this transcript of his talk presented at an ISFAR seminar in the series ‘After the Elections: Is a Reset possible in French-Australian Relations?’, the author comments on the political situation in France following the French elections in May 2022 and then […]
The Huybers and Loureiro Families
Author: PAUL KIEM The French Australian Review 74 (Australian Winter 2023): 22–44. https://doi.org/10.62586/MNTN7757 This article is the first part of a two-part article. Part 2 will be published in No. 75. Scholars have recently highlighted the significance of France’s influence on Australia’s culture and society, especially in the decades around Federation. Out of all proportion […]
The Vagaries of French-Australian Relations Seen Through French Eyes
Author: ERIC BERTI The French Australian Review 74 (Australian Winter 2023): 5–20. https://doi.org/10.62586/QPRH7119 Eric Berti was Consul-General of France in Sydney from 2012–2015. His opinion piece is in response to that of Ivan Barko in Issue 73, where Barko wrote of the ‘love-hate’ relationship between France and Australia. Berti responds that, while he does not […]
Civilising the Pacific in Louise Michel’s ‘Kanak Play’
Author: ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI The French Australian Review 74 (Australian Winter 2023): 45–65. https://doi.org/10.62586/XBKD7675 Abstract: Among the more than 4000 communards deported to New Caledonia in the 1870s were many who had professional, literary and publishing experience. Despite the harshness of the conditions of detention, that varied according to the punishment imposed: déportation simple, dans une […]