Abstract
You have probably guessed how the blockade has confined me to Texas, as if in a besieged city, deprived of all communication with Europe. The planters’ government added to this isolation, by suspending the mailing of newspapers and of almost all freight. This resulted in a state of isolation favorable to obscurantism and tyranny.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Most likely to his father “Mon Cher P[ère]”, as in Elkhadem and Isaac [2, letter 49, October 7, 1871].
- 2.
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
- 3.
The Battle of Saragossa (Spanish: Zaragoza), August 1710.
- 4.
From impious Babylon, from which all shame has fled, all good is banished, the house of grief, the mother of error, I have also fled, to prolong my life [3]. Note the typographical error [oud] in the first line.
- 5.
The identity of S... is not given, but it could be that Houzeau refers to Félix-Marie-Julien-Michel Stappaerts (1812–1885), art critic and biographer, and close friend of Houzeau. In Elkhadem et al. [4, letter 55, September 12, 1860] addressed to his parents, Houzeau mentions that Stappaerts had carte blanche to submit for publication (or not to submit) some of his reports. In the same letter, he refers to Stappaerts as “S”.
- 6.
i.e., from the city of Louvain in Belgium.
References
Houzeau, J.-C. (1862). La Terreur Blanche au Texas et mon Évasion. Bruxelles: Ve Parent & Fils.
Elkhadem, H., Isaac, M. -T. (eds.) (2014). De Mons vers le nouveau monde: Jean-Charles Houzeau, Lettres de Jamaïque (1868–1876). In Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences, Collection in-\(8^\circ \), 4e série, T. 4 (p. 488). Brussels: ARB.
Petrarca, F. (1842). Il canzoniere di Francesco Petrarca, Sonetto CXIV (A. S. Kline, Trans.). https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/PetrarchCanzoniere062-122.php, last visited July 27, 2019.
Elkhadem, H., Félix, A., & Wellens-De Donder, L. (Eds.). (1994). Lettres de Jean-Charles Houzeau adressées des Etats-Unis à sa famille: 1857–1868 (p. 458). Brussels: Centre National d’Histoire des Sciences.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sterken, C., King, A.A. (2020). The White Terror in Texas—Fragments of Particular Letters. In: Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46538-4_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46538-4_11
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-46536-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-46538-4
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)