French Exile Journalism & European Politics 1792-1814 by Simon Burrows

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Pages: 288

Between 1792 and 1814 London was home to a flourishing French +¬migr+¬ newspaper and periodical press that served both an exile audience and a Europe-wide French-speaking elite. The experienced journalists who had fled the revolution and staffed the press are revealed as professional activists engaged in an international ideological struggle; their successful counter-revolutionary propaganda affected French foreign policy, while their relationship with their British government patrons remained remarkably independent. The evolving counter-revolutionary ideology of the +¬migr+¬ press was highly influential in driving events in Europe, both clandestinely and more openly; only with the accession of Bonaparte in 1799, and the return of many of the exiles to France, did +¬migr+¬ propaganda crystallise into a reactionary anti-Bonaparte press and an ideological framework for Bourbonism.

SIMON BURROWS is a lecturer in the School of History at the University of Leeds.