- Department of History
California State University, Fullerton
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Gayle K Brunelle
California State University, Fullerton, History, Faculty Member
- I am a historian of early modern and modern France, and the early modern Atlantic World.edit
Dolo, grand audiencier at the court and Intendant of New France in 1620 (Champlain was his lieutenant-general). The company sponsored 800 colonists, men and women, with the intention of establishing a viable plantation colony. On the... more
Dolo, grand audiencier at the court and Intendant of New France in 1620 (Champlain was his lieutenant-general). The company sponsored 800 colonists, men and women, with the intention of establishing a viable plantation colony. On the surface, the colony seemed to be better funded than previous French colonization efforts in Guiana, but Marivault drowned while trying to board the ship in the harbor at Honfleur — perhaps a bad omen. The colony began to disintegrate even prior to landing at Cayenne. During the crossing from France, Le Roux de Royville was murdered, his body thrown overboard. Unfortunately that episode was just the beginning of the tensions and conflict that become rife within the colony, as well as between the settlers and the native Galibí. When it became known that the Compag-nie de l'Amerique did not, in fact, have royal backing, the Compagnie went bankrupt and the colony disintegrated. Two lawsuits were filed: one by Royville's family and the other by Nicolas Papin, one of the investors. This paper is based on the deposition of Charles Fremin, accused of the murder of Royville, and on the story of the murder as recounted by Jacque de Laon, Sieur d'Aigremont, an eyewitness and probably one of the conspirators. It tells the story of the assassination and its impact on the subsequent self-destruction of the colony and the bankruptcy of the company. It also analyzes the causes of the crime and extent to which its roots lay in the methods in which French colonial expeditions were organized and financed.
Of all of France's early modern colonial ventures, the least studied and most obscure are the French efforts to establish settlements, missions, and plantations in Guiana. Still, the seventeenth-century French colonies in Guiana had much... more
Of all of France's early modern colonial ventures, the least studied and most obscure are the French efforts to establish settlements, missions, and plantations in Guiana. Still, the seventeenth-century French colonies in Guiana had much in common with the sixteenth-century French efforts to colonize Florida and Brazil, and their trajectories were every bit as dramatic and their outcomes equally dismal. Although not sponsored as Huguenot refuges in the New World from Catholic oppression in the Old, and thus not burdened with the fierce competition between Protestant and Catholic colonists that plagued the sixteenth-century ventures, the Guiana colonies were also prey to deep internal divisions over piety and morality, and even more over power and the purpose of the colony. Were they primarily missions to the Native peoples, plantations, or commercial ventures focused on locating sources of precious metals or establishing plantations? This paper examines the role of clerics in the genesis, financing, trajectories, and collapse of the earliest French colonies in Guiana, in particular two colonies founded about ten years apart, in 1643 and 1652. I will the argue that whereas historians have often assumed that missionaries and evangelizing were often little more than an encumbrance to early colonial ventures, useful mostly for raising funds in France, in reality clerics played a central role in shaping chartered colonial companies and the colonies they founded, for good and for ill.
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After failing to wrest Brazil from the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, the French turned their attention to the region north of the Amazon and south of the Orinoco River. The Guiana ventures the French launched during the middle... more
After failing to wrest Brazil from the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, the French turned their attention to the region north of the Amazon and south of the Orinoco River. The Guiana ventures the French launched during the middle decades of the seventeenth century met with numerous disasters, many of them self-inflicted, including bankruptcies, mutinies, murder, and costly rivalries between companies based in Paris and Rouen. Despite their many setbacks during the seventeenth century, however, the French were determined to establish plantations on the island of Cayenne in modern French Guiana. By the eighteenth century, French planters were cultivating sugar and tobacco in and around Cayenne using primarily the labour of African slaves. The nucleus, thus, of the future colony of French Guiana had been laid, in a territory sandwiched between the English colony of Guyana and the Dutch colony of Suriname, to the northwest, and Portuguese-controlled territory to the south and east. ...
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American vicereine of India; on Lord Arthur Gordon (1829-1912) and Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-91) who between them ruled half a dozen colonies; on Lancelot Threlkeld (1788-1859), LMS missionary in Polynesia and Australia; and on two... more
American vicereine of India; on Lord Arthur Gordon (1829-1912) and Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-91) who between them ruled half a dozen colonies; on Lancelot Threlkeld (1788-1859), LMS missionary in Polynesia and Australia; and on two Scots, Qregor ...
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Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Francis A. Dutra, Military Orders in the Early Modern... more
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In Un roman bourgeois sous Louis XIV, Nicolas Lyon-Caen has edited and published biographical accountswhat he calls 'itineraries'of brother and sister Jacques (16561747) and Michelle Homassel (16551702),... more
In Un roman bourgeois sous Louis XIV, Nicolas Lyon-Caen has edited and published biographical accountswhat he calls 'itineraries'of brother and sister Jacques (16561747) and Michelle Homassel (16551702), along with the final testament of the latter. Jacques Homassel's ...
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In her insightful article "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France," Sarah Hanley theo-rizes the existence of an alliance of interests between the French legists... more
In her insightful article "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France," Sarah Hanley theo-rizes the existence of an alliance of interests between the French legists and kings and their royal councilors that resulted in what she terms "the ...
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Toureaux, an attractive twenty-nine-year-old woman wearing a striking green suit, a white hat and gloves, left a bal musette named L'Ermitage in the Paris suburb of Charentonneau and walked briskly towards a bus stop.... more
Toureaux, an attractive twenty-nine-year-old woman wearing a striking green suit, a white hat and gloves, left a bal musette named L'Ermitage in the Paris suburb of Charentonneau and walked briskly towards a bus stop. Approximately twenty-four minutes later, she entered the Porte ...
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Información del artículo The Power and Patronage of Maguerite de Navarre. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.).
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... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hardwick, Julie, 1962-The practice of patriarchy : gender and the politics of household authority in early modern France /Julie Hardwick. p. cm. ... Fora summary, see Carol Pateman,... more
... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hardwick, Julie, 1962-The practice of patriarchy : gender and the politics of household authority in early modern France /Julie Hardwick. p. cm. ... Fora summary, see Carol Pateman, TheSexual Contrart (Stanford, 1988). 19-38. ...
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... read-ing, constructive feedback, and willingness to be pestered by my questions on all sorts of topics, I would like to thank Osama Abi-Mershed, Tommaso Astarita (polyglot friend and patient translator of Italian and Latin items),... more
... read-ing, constructive feedback, and willingness to be pestered by my questions on all sorts of topics, I would like to thank Osama Abi-Mershed, Tommaso Astarita (polyglot friend and patient translator of Italian and Latin items), Henriette de Bruyn Kops, Chandra Manning ...
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Henriette de Bruyn Kops. A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade between France and the Dutch Republic in Its Atlantic Framework, 1600–1650 .:A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade between France and the Dutch Republic in Its Atlantic Framework, 1600–1650. (The Northern World, numb...more
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Andrea Finkelstein. The Grammar of Profit: The Price Revolution in Intellectual Context. GK Brunelle AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 112:33, 920, AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 2007.
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information,... more
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@odu.edu. Repository Citation Finley-Croswhite, Annette and Brunelle, Gayle K., "Murder in the Metro: Mysterious Death Leads to Scholarly Work on Gender and Fascism in 1937 France" (2006). History Faculty Publications. 22. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_fac_pubs/22
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Of all of France’s early modern colonial ventures, the least studied and most obscure are the French efforts to establish settlements, missions, and plantations in Guiana. Still, the seventeenth-century French colonies in Guiana had much... more
Of all of France’s early modern colonial ventures, the least studied and most obscure are the French efforts to establish settlements, missions, and plantations in Guiana. Still, the seventeenth-century French colonies in Guiana had much in common with the sixteenth-century French efforts to colonize Florida and Brazil, and their trajectories were every bit as dramatic and their outcomes equally dismal. Although not sponsored as Huguenot refuges in the New World from Catholic oppression in the Old, and thus not burdened with the fierce competition between Protestant and Catholic colonists that plagued the sixteenth-century ventures, the Guiana colonies were also prey to deep internal divisions over piety and morality, and even more over power and the purpose of the colony. Were they primarily missions to the Native peoples, plantations, or commercial ventures focused on locating sources of precious metals or establishing plantations? This paper examines the role of clerics in the ge...
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During 1936–1937 France experienced elevated levels of violence in the form of terrorism that historians have tended to overlook, opting to leave most discussion of terrorist activities to political scientists. This paper examines the use... more
During 1936–1937 France experienced elevated levels of violence in the form of terrorism that historians have tended to overlook, opting to leave most discussion of terrorist activities to political scientists. This paper examines the use of terrorism in 1930s France by one of the most notorious and understudied groups of political radicals on the far right, the Comite Secret d’Action Revolutionnaire or Cagoule, whose members perpetrated terrorist acts in interwar France as part of their unsuccessful bid to overthrow the Popular Front government of Leon Blum. Former Cagoulards regrouped during the war to achieve their political goals in a reincarnation known as the Mouvement Social Revolutionnaire (Pour la Revolution Nationale) or MSR.1 The MSR reprised many of the same terrorist tactics they had employed in the interwar period, and against many of the same targets. The Cagoulard leadership (and, subsequently, that of the MSR) consisted of extremists expelled from the right-wing Action francaise in 1935 for advocating direct action in favour of the ‘National Revolution’. These extremists argued that mainstream leaders of the French right were all talk and no action, and criticised in particular the failure of the Action francaise to take advantage of the violent anti-parliamentary street riots of 6 February 1934 to overthrow the Republic.2
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Abstract The Compagnie de l’Amerique was a joint-stock company based in Paris and created in 1652 for the purpose of establishing a French colony at Cayenne in what is today French Guiana. The Compagnie de l’Amerique was founded under the... more
Abstract The Compagnie de l’Amerique was a joint-stock company based in Paris and created in 1652 for the purpose of establishing a French colony at Cayenne in what is today French Guiana. The Compagnie de l’Amerique was founded under the sponsorship of a theologian from the Sorbonne, the Abbé Marivault, the Sieur le Roux de Royville from Normandy, and several important officers and robe nobles in Paris, including the Secretary of the Marine, La Boulaye, and Jean-Jacques Dolu, grand audiencier at the court and Intendant of New France in 1620 under whom Champlain was a lieutenant-general. The company sponsored 800 colonists, men and women, with the intention of establishing a viable plantation colony. On the surface, the colony seemed to be better funded than previous French colonization efforts in Guiana, but Marivault drowned while trying to board the ship in the harbor at Honfleur — perhaps a bad omen. The colony began to disintegrate even prior to landing at Cayenne. During the crossing from France, Le Roux de Royville was murdered and his body thrown overboard. Unfortunately, that episode was just the beginning of the tensions and conflict that become rife within the colony, as well as between the settlers and the native Galibí. When it became known that the Compagnie de l’Amerique did not, in fact, have royal backing, the Compagnie went bankrupt and the colony disintegrated. Two lawsuits were filed: one by Royville’s family and the other by Nicolas Papin, one of the investors. This paper is based on the deposition of Charles Fremin, accused of the murder of Royville, and on the story of the murder as recounted by Jacque de Laon, Sieur d’Aigremont, an eyewitness and probably one of the conspirators. It tells the story of the assassination and its impact on the subsequent self-destruction of the colony and the bankruptcy of the company. It also analyzes the causes of the crime and extent to which its roots lay in the methods in which French colonial expeditions were organized and financed.
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ALONGSIDE THE MANY STUDIES PUBLISHED SINCE 1967 on the early modern European aristocracy there has grown a smaller, but equally impressive and significant, groundswell of work on merchants and trade.1 Historians who examine the... more
ALONGSIDE THE MANY STUDIES PUBLISHED SINCE 1967 on the early modern European aristocracy there has grown a smaller, but equally impressive and significant, groundswell of work on merchants and trade.1 Historians who examine the development of commerce ...
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Noble affinities were the essence of power in six-teenth-century France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion and the first substantial study of the Guise -... more
Noble affinities were the essence of power in six-teenth-century France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion and the first substantial study of the Guise - the most powerful family of the period - to ...
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Abstract:On October 3, 1941 the French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) bombed six synagogues and one Jewish prayer house in Paris. The only scholarship addressing this "Nuit Bleue" focuses on the Nazi Security... more
Abstract:On October 3, 1941 the French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) bombed six synagogues and one Jewish prayer house in Paris. The only scholarship addressing this "Nuit Bleue" focuses on the Nazi Security and Police Service, who provided the explosives but neither planned nor executed the attacks. Below, the authors restore memory of the bombings and re-establish French agency and culpability. They also explore Jewish reaction and resistance. The authors argue that the MSR created a "Holocaust Landscape" in Paris, with serious implications for Jews in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Several threads of the narrative thus interject the story of the bombings into the larger history of the Shoah.
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... Hélène Teisseire and Anne-Marie Chevais searched out information for us on numerous occasions, and Anne-Marie in particular arranged for one of us to meetJean-Pierre Rioux, a specialist on the Popular Front. Philippe ...
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ALONGSIDE THE MANY STUDIES PUBLISHED SINCE 1967 on the early modern European aristocracy there has grown a smaller, but equally impressive and significant, groundswell of work on merchants and trade.1 Historians who examine the... more
ALONGSIDE THE MANY STUDIES PUBLISHED SINCE 1967 on the early modern European aristocracy there has grown a smaller, but equally impressive and significant, groundswell of work on merchants and trade.1 Historians who examine the development of commerce ...