Deux Hollandaises à Trévoux (1788-1797) : voyage d’agrément ou engagement politique ?
This article focuses on the ‘revolutionary voyage’ of Elizabeth Wolff, née Bekker (1738-1804) and her friend and companion Agatha Deken (1741-1804). These two Dutch women writers and patriots emigrated to France in 1788 shortly after the failure of the Dutch Patriot Revolution and spent their nine y...
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| Language: | fra |
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Association Mnémosyne
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Genre & Histoire |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/1427 |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the ‘revolutionary voyage’ of Elizabeth Wolff, née Bekker (1738-1804) and her friend and companion Agatha Deken (1741-1804). These two Dutch women writers and patriots emigrated to France in 1788 shortly after the failure of the Dutch Patriot Revolution and spent their nine years of political exile in the little town of Trévoux. Their letters and publications as well as local archives show their personal involvement in the French Revolution and suggest the existence of a transnational political network along Protestant lines to which they belonged. The proclamation of the Batavian Republic in 1795 inspired them to write a jubilant poem, but they only returned home a few months before the radical coup of January 1798. They immediately settled in the capital of the Republic, The Hague, and placed their pens at the service of the new regime. This unconditional commitment testifies that their years of exile in France had not lessened their political activism, but on the contrary had enhanced it, thus demonstrating a revolutionary citizenship irrespective of sex. |
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| ISSN: | 2102-5886 |