03149nam 2200613 a 450 991081205360332120230725021417.00-8173-8511-8(CKB)2560000000079500(EBL)835654(OCoLC)772459205(SSID)ssj0000585165(PQKBManifestationID)11369791(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585165(PQKBWorkID)10593311(PQKB)10432571(MiAaPQ)EBC835654(MdBmJHUP)muse17222(Au-PeEL)EBL835654(CaPaEBR)ebr10527769(EXLCZ)99256000000007950020110127d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReborn in America[electronic resource] French exiles and refugees in the United States and the vine and olive adventure, 1815-1865 /Eric Saugera ; translated by Madeleine VelguthTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20111 online resource (586 p.)Atlantic crossingsBased on the author's thesis written in French in 2007, entitled: Renaître en América.0-8173-1723-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Treason and terror -- A critical moment -- The "chief culprits" -- Political reaction in Gironde -- Across the Atlantic -- Maritime exodus -- A conflictual friendship -- Settling in America -- Alabama's exotic roots -- Grape harvests in America -- The new Thebaid -- A gift from Congress -- A family affair -- French lands in Alabama -- Routes to the South -- The promised land -- The French and the others -- A model colonist -- Choice of a world -- Rebirth in America -- Return to the homeland.The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in Alabama based on the ideals of the French Revolution, has long been bolstered by the images that have been proliferated in the popular imagination of French ladies (in Josephine-style gowns) and gentlemen (in officer's full dress uniforms) lounging in the breeze on the bluffs overlooking the Tombigbee River while sturdy French peasants plowed the rich soil of the BlacAtlantic crossings.French AmericansAlabamaHistory19th centuryFrench AmericansLand tenureAlabamaHistory19th centuryAgricultural coloniesAlabamaHistory19th centuryVine and Olive ColonyAlabamaHistory19th centuryFrench AmericansHistoryFrench AmericansLand tenureHistoryAgricultural coloniesHistory976.1/05Saugera Eric253190MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812053603321Reborn in America3928446UNINA