KIRSTY CARPENTER is a Lecturer in European History in the School of History, Philosophy and Politics at Massey University, New Zealand. Her first book Refugees of the French Revolution: ...migrs in London, 1792-1802 will appear in 1999. Her specialist interest focuses on the political literature of the French Revolution. She is currently working on Marie-Joseph Chnier, a member of the Convention and the Revolution's official poet. PHILIP MANSEL is an historian of courts and royal dynasties and editor of The Court Historian , newsletter of the Society for Court Studies. He is the author of biographies on Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne and his other published works include Sultans in Splendour: The last years of the Ottoman World , and Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 . He is currently working on a history of Paris from 1815-1848.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction From Coblenz to Hartwell: the Émigré Government and the European Powers 1791-1814; P.Mansel A European Destiny: The Armée de Condé 1792-1801; F.d'Agay London: Capital of the Emigration; K.Carpenter French Émigrés in Hungary; F.Toth Portugal and the Émigrés; D.Higgs French Émigrés in Prussia during the Revolution of 1789; T.Höpel French Émigrés in Edinburgh; Lord Mackenzie-Stuart Le Milliard des Émigrés ; The Impact of the Indemnity Bill of 1825 on French Society; A.Franke French Émigrés in the United States; T.C.Sosnowski The Émigré Novel; M.Cook Danloux in England (1792-1802): An Émigré Artist; A.Goodden The Image of the Republic in the Press of the London Émigrés, 1792-1802; S.Burrows Burke, Boisgelin and the Politics of the Émigré bishops ; N.Aston 'Fearless Resting Place.' The Exiled Clergy in Great Britain, 1789-1815; D.A.Bellenger Index

'This collection of essays opens up a neglected aspect of the French Revolution: the experiences of those who fled abroad and their efforts to come to terms with the societies in which they found themselves. It throws a new light on the diversity and complexity of a subject that has too often been taken for granted.' - Norman Hampson, Professor Emeritus, University of York 'Like political refugees throughout history, those who emigrated from Revolutionary France have received short shrift from historians of the period. Too often they have been presented as rather lifeless stereotypes, the stuff of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary legends, to be praised by royalists and reviled by radicals. This timely collection of essays discusses the Aemigres as individuals and examines their diverse experiences across widely contrasting European societies. In the process it helps to show them as men and women forced by circumstance to make hard and painful choices.' - Alan Forrest, Professor of History, University of York