LA FRONTIERA TRA FRANCIA E BELGIO NEL SETTECENTO
BORDER BETWEEN FRANCE AND BELGIUM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Author(s): Luisa MessinaSubject(s): Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Political history, Social history, French Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: Belgium; France; politics; Chevrier; hostilities.
Summary/Abstract: Actual border between France and Belgium is not defined in the eighteenth-century yet. Belgium isn’t an independent State but a territory which belongs to different dominators who refer to it as “Southern Netherlands” controlled by Spain (1579-1713), later by Austria (1713-1794) and finally by France (1794-1815). This configuration includes actual Belgium, Luxembourg and region Nord-Pas-de-Calais. This study aims to focus on political situation concerning Southern Netherlands which are crushed by near France and independent Netherlands through François-Antoine Chevrier’s personal witness. The French writer catches contradictions which are inherent to an uncertain political context and pays with his own life the strong hostilities between these countries.
Journal: Studii şi cercetari filologice. Seria limbi romanice
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 69-78
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Italian