The Acadian refugees in France, 1758-1785
Subtitle: the impossible reintegration?
By: Jean-François Mouhot ; translated by Russell Desmond
Contributors: Desmond, Russell, translator
Series: Published EUI PhD theses; Published EUI PhD theses
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lafayette, LA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781935754756
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Acadians; History; Relocation
Work titles: Réfugiés Acadiens en France 1758-1785
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. To assemble or disperse? The plans for settlement; title: "An attachment bordering on fanaticism for France:" causes for the arrival in France; title: The French administration and the Acadian groups; title: The plans for settlement: to populate the empire (c. 1760-c. 1765); title: The plans for settlement: clearing land in France (1763-1772); title: The plans for settlement: establishing the Acadians in France (1772-1785); title: Part II. The subsidies and economic problems; title: The subsidies: spoiled children of the ancien regime? Reasons for the assistance; title: Details of the assistance; title: "Work, take the trouble"; title: A sufficient supplement: a factor in the integration?; title: Part III. The game of identities; title: Impressions of the Acadians: the view of the administrators; title: A group apart?; title: The opinion of the popular classes and matrimonial intermingling.