Introduction: Diplomats and expatriates in the Ottoman Empire
during the French Revolution
Part I Franco-Ottoman relations during the Revolution
1: The end of the French diplomatic ancien régime
2: Negotiating for a besieged Republic: Franco-Ottoman diplomacy in
1793
3: Negotiating for a victorious Republic: Franco-Ottoman diplomacy
1794-1798
Part II From Paris to Istanbul: French revolutionary foreign policy
and diplomatic practice
4: Neglect or refusal? The revolutionary government's attitude
towards Franco-Ottoman negotiations during the Terror
5: Between innovation and continuity: French revolutionary
political culture and diplomatic practice
6: Self-containment or world revolution? The purpose of French
revolutionary propaganda
Part III Regime change in the French communities of the Levant,
1792-1795
7: Forgotten by liberty? Regime change and the challenges to
consular authority in the Levant
8: On silent feet: Stabilizing the regime change in the French
communities
9: Turning expatriates into citizens: The emergence of a new
political culture in the French communities of the Levant
Conclusion: The French Revolution on silent feet
Pascal Firges is a research fellow at the German Historical
Institute in Paris. Having studied History and Philosophy in
Heidelberg, Paris, and Cambridge, he holds a PhD in history from
Heidelberg University. He is the author of Großbritannien und das
Osmanische Reich Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (2009) and the co-editor
of Well-Connected Domains: Towards an Entangled Ottoman History
(2014). His recent areas of research include the French
Revolution, the cultural history of diplomacy, entangled histories
of early modern Europe and the world around it, cultural and gender
history, and the social structures of early modern court societies.
Out of several well-trodden subjects-the French Revolution,
diplomatic history, and the beginnings of decline in the Ottoman
Empire-Pascal Firges has produced something exciting and
fresh...French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire offers a
valuable contribution to the fields of both Ottoman and French
history...More and more excellent studies are demonstrating in
myriad ways the many and complex ways European and Ottoman history
has always been intertwined. This book contributes admirably to
that larger goal.
*Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, H-France Review*
Firges's study dispels conspiratorial myths about secret funds and
subterfuge on the part of revolutionary diplomats in Istanbul-myths
that originated with misleading reports by Prussian and British
agents. The book also nuances past accounts of revolutionary
foreign policy by offering a case study that emphasizes continuity
over rupture with the past. ... the importance of Firges's book
reaches beyond the ?eld of diplomatic history. His work will be of
interest to historians of France's overseas slave colonies during
the revolutionary era.
*Miranda Spieler, Journal of Modern History*
Pascal Firges has succeeded in producing a solidly researched,
well-written study based on records from Kew, Nantes, Paris, and
Vienna.
*Malte Fuhrmann, Historische Zeitschrift*
Pascal Firges' French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire is very
valuable, because it emphasizes a less studied aspect of the French
Revolution, its effect on the Levant.
*Hüseyin S. Tabakoğlu, French History*
this is a fine study with fascinating details . . .
*Virginia Aksan, International Journal of Middle East Studies*
Pascal Firges's book is highly recommendable and a fortunate
contribution to the renewal of the history of international
relations during the Revolution. [Translated from French]
*Marc Belissa, Annales historiques de la Révolution française*
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