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Brown Bag Lunch: Engaging with the French Revolution in the United States

The Storming of the Bastille, Henry Singleton, c. 1790. Museum of the French Revolution

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Emilie Mitran's research project, Engaging with the French Revolution in the United States: A Reflection on Politics, Diplomacy, and Regional Cultures (1780s–1989)

Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Mitran is researching how Americans perceived the French Revolution in the late 1780s, as they observed the growing popular discontent in France and its impact on the Early Republic. 

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Emilie Mitran

Emilie Mitran is a historian specializing in American history and transatlantic intellectual exchanges. She is a faculty member at the University of Toulon in France and holds a Ph.D. in American History from Aix-Marseille University. 

Her research focuses on the reception of the French Revolution in the United States, exploring diplomatic, cultural, and ideological relations between the two nations. Her dissertation, Gouverneur Morris, traducteur de la Révolution française, examined the intersections of diplomacy and cultural translation, highlighting the complexities of republicanism as a universal language of liberty and self-governance. 

This work led to the publication of her first book, Les Perséides (Rennes, 2022). Her second book, Une Relation révolutionnaire: des Américains à Paris (1776-1793), will be published by Nouveau Monde Éditions in the fall of 2025.

Recipient of the James C. Rees Fellowship on the Leadership of George Washington