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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 French Lives in Australia : A Collection of Biographical Essays
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'For a long time the French presence in Australia remained understated, yet French nationals were present from the very beginning of the colonial period. Their contribution to the European discovery of the country and to its economic, cultural and social development was significant. This book tells the stories of twenty-four leading French figures in Australia who contributed to the rapprochement between the two countries.' (Publication summary)

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  • CONTENT:

    S.E. CHRISTOPHE LECOURTIER, AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE, Foreword

    ERIC BERTI Introduction

    EDWARD DUYKER on Père Receveur and botanist Labillardière

    JOHN WEST-SOOBY, JEAN FORNASIERO and MARGARET SANKEY on Nicolas Baudin

    KENNETH DUTTON on Francis Barrallier, surveyor and cartographer

    NEVILLE POTTER on Nicolas Rossi, superintendent of police

    MICHEL REYMOND on Joseph Bernard Reymond, rural pioneer

    ROSLYN MAGUIRE on Didier Joubert, pioneer of Hunters Hill

    JACQUELINE DWYER on Georges Playoust, wool-buyer

    JOHN DRURY on Berthe Mouchette, founder of the Melbourne Alliance française and artist, and on her sister Marie Lion, artist

    GEOFFROY de LASSUS on Charles Phalempin, founder of the French bank in Australia

    DIANNE REILLY on Comte Lionel de Chabrillan, the first French Consul in Melbourne, and on Antoine-Julien Fauchery, miner and photographer

    WALLACE KIRSOP on Francis de Castelnau, scientist and consul general

    ERIC BERTI on Georges Biard, consul general of France in Sydney

    PATRICIA CLANCY on Céleste de Chabrillan, courtesan, consul’s wife and author

    ELAINE LEWIS on Léon Caron, conductor, composer and violinist

    MAURICE BLACKMAN on Paul Wenz, author and grazier

    ERIC BERTI on Jacques Playoust, French-Australian poilu

    PETER BROWN on Augustine Soubeiran, educator and WW1 fund-raiser

    COLIN NETTELBECK on Charlotte Crivelli, WW1 fund-raiser

    MARGARET BARRETT on André Brenac, Leader of the Free French in Australia

    STEPHANIE ANDERSON Narcisse Pelletier, the castaway

    TOM LOCKLEY and ERIC BERTI, on Maurice Guillaux, aviation pioneer

    CAROLE ROUSSEL Pierre Roussel, Founder of the Botany Bay Lapérouse Museum

    IVAN BARKO and COLIN NETTELBECK, Afterword

    IVAN BARKO and ERIC BERTI, List of French Consuls and Ambassadors in Australia (1842–2015)

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