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The British society which absorbed the émigrés was that of Evelina and of Pride and Prejudice. The one they left was the complex politicised society of The Wanderer and Mansfield Park. The influence of the émigré years extended well beyond the first decade of the nineteenth century but, even during that time, progress was made which was to determine the relationship between Britain and France for many years to come. It is hardly surprising to find the heroines of Corinne and The Wanderer waging war against social convention. Michelet in his turn ridiculed the next generation of French women whom he described as daughters of the long peace, suggesting that their mothers weren’t afraid to make sacrifices or to confront their destiny.1
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Michelet, Oeuvres Complètes, Paris, 1980, Vol. XVI, p. 485.
Donald Greer, Incidence of the Emigration, op. cit., 1951, p. 63.
Boloiseau, M., ‘Etude de l’émigration et de la vent des biens des émigrés 1792–1830’, Bulletin d’Histoire économique et sociale de la Révolution Française, 1961, pp. 25–89. Also, Almut Franke ‘Le Milliard des Émigrés: the Impact of the Indemnity Bill of 1825 on French Society’ in Kirsty Carpenter and Philip Mansel, eds, The Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution, 1789–1814, London, 1999, Chapter 8.
Rev. A. G. L’Estrange, ed., The Friendships and Letters of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from her Literary Correspondents, London, 1882, Vol. I, p. 15. In a letter from Mrs Mitford to Dr Mitford, dated 26 February 1808.
Philip Mansel, The Court of France, 1789–1830, London, 1988, p. 60.
Suzanne Blum, Vivre sans la patrie, Paris, 1975, p. 222.
Raymond Aron, Mémoirs, Paris, 1983, p. 191.
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Carpenter, K. (1999). Conclusion. In: Refugees of the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501645_11
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