AustLit

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)