The British Expatriate Community in France 1748–1815

Abstract

Emigreés, by very nature, defy classification. The tradition of the Englishman abroad, like a religious convert, more English than the English, more ultramontane than the General of the Jesuits, is a truism, but one that cannot be ignored. The implications for a Francophile study of English culture of the Jacobite dispossessed subsisting in Paris and the Channel ports is uncertain. For, while settlement and the adoption of Gallicized titles and surnames implies an acceptance of their French existence, it cannot be denied that a revolutionary movement, whose goal was the reconquest of Britain for the House of Stuart, suggests more an implacable patriotism than an adoration of cosmopolitan living.KeywordsEighteenth CenturyEnglish SocietyFrench AuthorityEnglish CommunityChannel PortThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.